Morocco moves to institute unemployment insurance in morocco

The administrative board of "La Caisse Nationale de S?curit? Sociale" (CNSS/social security fund) adopted a draft bill providing for instituting an unemployment insurance.

Under the bill amending a 1972 Dahir (royal decree), the insured persons will get an allowance in case they lose their job for economic or technical reasons. The allowance, amounting to 70 percent of their latest salary, will be granted for a six-month period.

The CNSS administrative board also debated the strategy to promote social coverage. The strategy to run till 2005 seeks to provide social coverage to 2 million insured persons and to institute the compulsory health insurance. The strategy also provides for the rehabilitation of CNSS polyclinics.