Morocco’s colorful and diversified handicrafts employ 20% of the total workforce, said tourism and handicrafts minister Fatima Zahra Ammour. Speaking at the opening of national handicrafts fair, she highlighted the strong social dimension of this sector which however needs to address challenges inherent to informal labor. The sector grew 7% in 2023 with 1 billion […]
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Morocco to extend social protection to 2.5 million handicraftsmen
Some 2.5 million handicraftsmen and their dependents will finally have access to social protection after the government approved a law to enlist them in the private sector pension fund CNSS. The new law was presented by tourism and handicrafts minister Nadia Fettah Alaoui to MPs as part of a reform that aims to fill a […]

