FIM

The Moroccan Ministry of Culture, on the one hand, and Communication and Employment Ministries on the oth­er, have just suc­cess­ful­ly steered the unan­i­mous adop­tion by the Chamber of Deputies of a bill ensur­ing essen­tial progress for Moroccan artists, in par­tic­u­lar for per­form­ers work­ing under short-​term contracts.

Reforming Act #91.71 of 2003 on the sta­tus of the artist, the text opens up the way for col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing in the sec­tor and, by enabling all per­form­ers to have access to social ben­e­fits, should help reduce the pre­car­i­ous­ness which most of them have to face.

FIM is delight­ed to see that the main claims of Moroccan per­former unions, SMPM (a FIM mem­ber) and SMPT, have been tak­en into account and notes with sat­is­fac­tion that there is a his­tor­i­cal con­sen­sus among all polit­i­cal par­ties rep­re­sent­ed in the Chamber of Deputies on this essen­tial issue.

FIM engages mem­bers of the Chamber of Councillors to sup­port this bill in turn when it comes up for exam­i­na­tion and add a pro­vi­sion mak­ing the grant­i­ng of pub­lic sub­si­dies sub­ject to the respect or nego­ti­a­tion of col­lec­tive agree­ments between enter­pris­es con­cerned and rep­re­sen­ta­tive unions.