The series of dates for employees to receive the 500 dirham increase approved by the social agreement between the government, trade union centers, the Moroccan Confederation of Agriculture and Rural Development, and the General Confederation of Moroccan Enterprises continues, while workers wait to see whether the end of August will be the date for it or whether they will continue to wait until next September.
A number of employees announced via Facebook groups that they received the increase at the beginning of this week, while some, especially from the local communities sector, confirmed that they did not receive it.
According to the same sources, the increase was updated on the Treasury website for some employees, while others confirmed that they received it and that it had been deducted, according to employee posts.
A source from the Ministry of Finance said, “The problem of the Official Gazette has been resolved, and the matter is now in the hands of each sector to include an increase of 500 dirhams as an amendment to the basic system for its employees.”
The same source added, in a statement to Hespress, that the Prime Minister had sent, some time ago, a memorandum concerning the activation of the outcomes of the social dialogue, explaining that “this step is followed by including an increase of 500 dirhams in each basic system according to each sector, and then after that it is passed to the public treasury in order to disburse the increase.”
The official at the Ministry of Finance expected that “this increase will be disbursed in late September or late August, and that it will not be on the same date for all sectors,” indicating that “the increase is calculated retroactively from July.”
The source stressed that “the process is in the implementation phase, and the issue is related to normal procedures,” noting that “sectors can obtain it at the end of this August.”
Samira Al-Rais, head of the National Office of the Trade Union Federation of Employees, believes that “the government must assume its responsibility in order to pay employees’ wages without further delay.”
Al-Rais said, in a statement to Hespress, that the social agreement “stipulated that the increase would be in July, but the workers saw that August was about to end and it had not happened yet, which means that not paying it in this month’s wages will harm the credibility of the social dialogue.”
The spokeswoman added that “public sector employees do not yet know whether they will receive this increase by the end of this month or not,” stressing that “the continued ambiguity of the scene shows a kind of lack of seriousness on the part of the government in dealing with this issue.”
Al-Rais pointed out that “the issue of including the increase in the basic systems is somewhat logical, but the government must ensure the acceleration of these technical procedures so as not to leave employees without their rights throughout the summer and in the face of the specter of the start of the school year.”
The head of the National Office of the Trade Union Federation of Employees warned of “a high probability that the increase will not be paid in the employees’ sector in public institutions, compared to the ambiguity of the scene for the rest of the public sectors,” stressing that “the wages expected in the coming days for the public service will be decisive in the credibility of the social dialogue.”
For his part, Suleiman Aqlai, the national secretary of the National Union of Local Government and Delegated Management Employees, affiliated with the Moroccan Labor Union, believes that “the wage increase is expected either this month or next September.”
Aqla’i told Hespress that all the increases approved in Morocco “experienced this usual delay, which means that the matter is not a major problem as much as it is a purely technical issue.”
The spokesman added that “after the Prime Minister’s memorandum, another correspondence appeared from the Minister Delegate in charge of the Finance Sector, setting a date for the Kingdom’s Treasurer to disburse this increase between September and August, retroactive from July,” stressing that “no sector included in the agreement has currently received this increase, and everything will appear in the remaining days of August.”
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