Effect given to the recommendations of the committee and the Governing Body - Report No 306, March 1997

Case No 1712 (Morocco) - Complaint date: 17-APR-93 - Closed

Effect given to the recommendations of the Committee and the Governing Body

1. 42. At its last examination of this case, the Committee requested the Government to arrange for inquiries into: (a) the anti-union intimidation and pressure reportedly exerted on workers at the Plastima factory in Casablanca in May 1993 and at the Mansour El Dahbi Hotel in Marrakesh in April 1993 and; (b) the police intervention in strikes carried out at the above two places. Finally, the Committee urged the Government to provide information on the situation of named UMT activists who were reportedly incarcerated on the occasion of the strike at the Mansour El Dahbi Hotel (see 304th Report, paras. 365 to 380).
2. 43. In its communication dated 23 January 1997, the Government recalls that the industrial dispute at the Plastima factory was based on the dismissal of 11 workers, three of whom were union representatives. The Government adds that the police had to intervene in this dispute in order to ensure public order and protection of the freedom to work. Finally, the Government specifies that the dispute was reportedly resolved by the signing of a protocol between the parties stipulating the reinstatement of five workers and the payment of indemnities to the other workers concerned. The latter reportedly lodged complaints with the first level court which rejected their appeal. The plaintiffs are still awaiting the results of the appeal which they lodged against this decision.
3. 44. The Committee takes note of this information and requests the Government to transmit a copy of the judgement of the first level court, as well as the decision, once it is made, of the appeal court. It nevertheless deplores that the Government has not furnished any information concerning the situation of workers at the Mansour El Dahbi Hotel in Marrakesh. It requests the Government to keep it informed of the inquiries made into the acts of anti-union intimidation and pressure reportedly exerted on the workers of the hotel and on the police intervention during the strikes carried out there. Finally, the Committee urges the Government to provide information on the current situation of the UMT activists arrested in Marrakesh (Aboul Hanana Abdeljalil, Abou Nouass Latifa, El Hasnaoui Ahmed, Al Korssa Aberahmane, Boukentar Mohamed, Soulal Fatima, Boulal Zohra and Kati Mohammed).