Abhatoo - Centre Nationale de Documentation

In Morocco, as in many countries, the lowest-paid workers typically labor in informal employment, many of them in agriculture where the reach of national labor laws and regulations is poor at best. When labor laws are not upheld, frequent and ongoing violations of worker rights occur. Workers often are forced to work long hours, are paid less than the minimum wage and rarely receive retirement or other benefits that they are guaranteed under national law. This is especially true for women, who are typically the most precarious and lowest-paid agricultural workers in many value chains and who are especially subject to sexual harassment and other forms of gender-based violence and harassment at work.