Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1992, published 79th ILC session (1992)

Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122) - Morocco (Ratification: 1979)

With reference to its general observation of 1991, the Committee notes the communication received jointly from the Democratic Confederation of Labour and the General Union of Moroccan Workers, dated March 1991, a copy of which was transmitted to the Government in a letter dated 5 April 1991. The Committee notes that the report that was due from the Government has not been received.

The Democratic Confederation of Labour and the General Union of Moroccan Workers allege that the Government is not pursuing an effective employment policy, omits to consult occupational organisations and thereby fails to give effect to the provisions of the Convention. These organisations consider that the Government, by abandoning its planning policy and replacing it by plans to balance its finances in accordance with the advice and directives of the IMF, is ignoring the relationship between employment objectives and other economic and social objectives. They state that the Government does not follow any dialogue and consultation procedures with occupational organisations and that it has paralysed the Supreme Labour Council since its creation by the Decree of 14 August 1967. They urge that a national tripartite body be established to declare and pursue a national policy of full employment.

The Committee notes that certain of these allegations are related to the points that it has raised in its previous comments. It trusts that the Government will supply full particulars in its report in reply to these allegations and to the request that is being addressed directly to it in order to enable the Committee to examine at its next session the manner in which effect is given to the fundamental provisions of the Convention, of which Article 1 requires the declaration and pursual "as a major goal", of "an active policy designed to promote full, productive and freely chosen employment", taking due account of the "mutual relationships between employment objectives and other economic and social objectives", and Article 3 provides that "representatives of the persons effected by the measures to be taken, and in particular representatives of employers and workers, shall be consulted concerning employment policies, with a view to taking fully into account their experience and views and securing their full cooperation in formulating and enlisting support for such policies".