Event reports
To open the proceedings of the 25th HR Summit, Bouchra Nhaili, President of AGEF Nationale, chose the famous HR law: "There is no wealth without people" to kick off the conference. She expressed the firm desire of AGEF Nationale, including its five regional sections, to support the Kingdom's regions in developing their human capital.
In his opening remarks, Steffen Krueger, Resident Representative of the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation, drew the audience's attention to the activities of the Adenauer Foundation in relation to the theme of the summit, namely the mobilisation of energies.
The Minister for Economic Inclusion, Small Business, Employment and Skills, Younes Sekkouri, began his speech by recalling the wide-ranging social reform that puts children and citizens at the heart of Morocco's concerns. To this end, King Mohammed VI has launched a project worth DH30 billion a year to strengthen the economic and social targeting programme, he said. It's not just a question of budgets; Morocco is well equipped to administer this project, namely the Unified Social Register and the Social Population Register," he said.
“It is not a theoretical social state, but a social state that finds an extension in reality.” Younes Sekkouri
Indeed, inclusion is at the heart of this royal vision in which no Moroccan man or woman is left to his or her fate without shelter from the social state, he stressed.
The Minister's speech also provided an opportunity to review the latest figures published by the Haut-Commissariat du Plan on the Labour Market Situation in the Third Quarter of 2023 *.
The first trend fuelling unemployment in Morocco is drought. According to the HCP report, 23,1000 unpaid jobs have been lost as a result of the drought. As a result, the logic of exodus imposes itself ipso facto on these people, who often share the work with members of their families. If there is a destination, it is the construction industry, which in turn is not having the best of days," says Younes Sekkouri.
In this context, the Minister recalled the two programmes recently launched by the government, Awrach and Awrach II, and regretted that, despite the availability of posts, people were not applying, which had pushed this programme towards a new territorial redistribution.
In addition, 680,000 jobs have been lost in self-employment - not necessarily self-employed entrepreneurs, he said. The Minister for Economic Inclusion, Small Business, Employment and Skills justified this loss, in part, by the reconsideration of salaried employment due to the expansion of the CNSS or, quite simply, by the lack of declaration due to unstable and insufficient income.
“Thanks to the double increase in the minimum wage and the formalisation of jobs, Morocco has achieved something new for the first time.” Younes Sekkouri
Younes Sekkouri also took the opportunity to raise awareness among Human Resources directors of the need to support the government's efforts and consolidate them within their companies. Today, Morocco has a new urgent need for reform, namely continuing training," he pointed out. With this in mind, the Minister shared with the audience at the 25th HR Summit a new decision taken jointly with the CGEM to take responsibility for continuing training, he said.
At the same time, the Minister invited HRDs to take a fresh look at the issues they have to manage, to accept the right to make mistakes and to say from time to time "it's not a big deal", because excessive control would block individuals rather than having the desired effect in terms of discipline and productivity.
“The HRD function has become strategic, not only to ensure social peace and administrative management - which used to be the case - but to manage the part of the complexity imposed on us by global trends, [namely] consumer habits and demographic transformations with the new generations, successfully. ” Younes Sekkouri
Finally, the Minister invited HRDs to start considering data management in relation to ethics throughout their companies, as a major issue now facing the human resources function.
* https://www.hcp.ma/La-situation-du-marche-du-travail-au-troisieme-trimestre-de-2023_a3777.html
** As part of its efforts to support job seekers who have difficulty entering the labour market, and to improve and adapt their skills, the Government has implemented the "AWRACH" programme, which aims to create 250,000 jobs over the period 2022-2023.