Morocco and Spain sign labor agreement

Morocco and Spain signed in Madrid this Wednesday an agreement regulating the flow of labor, aimed to fight the exploitation of illegal workers.

The document was initialed by Morocco's minister of employment, vocational training, social development and solidarity, Abbas El Fassi, and Spain's deputy-premier and interior minister, Mariano Rajoy.

The agreement provides for the creation of a commission to select candidates who will be delivered legal stay documents and work contracts in Spain.

The Moroccan community, with 125,000 registered workers, is the largest foreign community settled in Spain.

The accord, similar to the ones signed by Spain with Equator and Columbia, is conform to the cooperation and friendship links between the two countries, Spanish official sources said. It guarantees social and professional rights and legal stay conditions to Moroccan workers.