New Moroccan Labor code to improve and protect women's labor rights

The newly enacted Labor Code in Morocco aims at improving and protecting women's rights at work, said, here Tuesday, Moroccan minister in charge of Moroccan expatriates.

Nouzha Chekrouni who was addressing the 31st ordinary session of the Arab Labor organization (ALO) held in Damascus February 14-21, underlined the reforms undertaken by Morocco with the adoption of the new Family Code and the new Labor Code, both of them, she said, aim at improving women's status.

Chekrouni who is also Secretary General of the Arab Woman Commission at the ALO laid emphasis on the need to establish what she called a "communication with women competences abroad to support the struggle of Arab women, in particular the expatriates, against the exclusion and inequalities they are facing in the host countries."