Morocco gives male employees 15 days of paternity leave
Social networking sites in Morocco witnessed controversy after the government announced that employees working in the public sector would be able to take paternity leave for fifteen days.
The Moroccan website, Hespress, stated that a number of citizens questioned, through comments on social media, why the private sector was not able to take the holiday itself.
Some citizens considered the inequality between workers in the public sector and their counterparts in the private sector in benefiting from paternity leave "discrimination."
In response, the government denied the existence of any discrimination between the public and private sectors, stressing that paternity leave granted to public sector employees does not mean excluding the private sector from this right.
The government reported that it was negotiating with trade unions in this regard.
A government spokesman, Mustafa Paytas, stated that enabling public sector employees to take fifteen days of paternity leave is a historic gain.
In response to a question regarding the "discrimination" between public sector employees and the private sector, Paytas added: "The dialogue has started and will continue with the trade unions, and the government will achieve other gains thanks to the participatory methodology with the social parties," without confirming whether private sector employees will benefit from the same holiday. .
The government official considered that the paternity holiday approved by the government falls within the context of the transformations that society is witnessing, pointing out that "there is a new culture spreading among Moroccans that spreads the conviction that the responsibility of raising children is a joint responsibility.
He stressed that the government will work to strengthen this trend."
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