Morocco: Traditional hammams in danger

MP Loubna Sghiri, member of the Progress and Socialism group in the House of Representatives, warns of the job insecurity affecting workers in traditional hammams whose number of working days has been reduced to three days a week due to the water shortage in Morocco.

Around 200,000 workers in the traditional hammam sector live in precarious situations, as do many other social groups who continue to live outside the Labour Code, says MP Loubna Sghiri in a question to Younes Sekkouri, Minister of Economic Inclusion, Small Business, Employment and Skills. “Traditional hammam workers work without any legal guarantees or social security coverage, because the relationship between this category of workers and the owners of the hammams often embodies the principle of servitude and unpaid work, that is to say, it is absolutely not subject to the Labour Code 65.90,” explained the elected official.