Soon, a pilot program for 400 Moroccan workers in Portugal

The Minister of Economic Inclusion, Small Business, Employment and Skills, Younes Skouri, met Tuesday 27 September in Lisbon with the Portuguese Minister of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security Ana Mendes Godin.

This meeting focused on ways to enhance cooperation between the two countries in the field of employment, and on the conditions for the joint implementation of the mobility agreement signed between the two parties in January 2022.

Quoting Younis Al-Skouri in a statement, he stressed that this meeting was an opportunity to review ways to enhance cooperation between the two countries, especially in the field of employment. The Minister indicated that this meeting allowed for discussion of procedures and methods for implementing this innovative and historic agreement.

beta program for 400 Moroccan workers In Portugal soon. He said it will be expanded to other areas in the future, outside the agricultural sector.

Younis Al-Skouri added that this process requires logistical and human means to select employees and integrate them into Portuguese companies, while ensuring their rights related to work, salary and social security. Thus an agreement was agreed upon between the National Agency for the Promotion of Employment and Skills and the Portuguese Institute for Training and Employment, in order to implement this programme.

In addition, the minister discussed with his Portuguese counterpart ways to establish exchange and training between vocational training institutes for Moroccan youth.

For her part, Anna Mendes Godinh stressed that the workers’ movement will be Legal and OrdinaryHe explained that there is a framework and concrete work between Anapec and the Portuguese Institute for Training and Employment to implement this process.

In this sense, the Minister pointed out the importance of development two fields In particular: the exchange and training of Moroccan workers and investment in Portuguese companies while ensuring the legal movement of workers and ensuring decent working conditions.