ASSESSING WORKING CONDITIONS IN THE MOROCCAN PLATFORM ECONOMY Fairwork Morocco

The growth of digital platforms in Morocco now necessitates a re-evaluation of labour The think tank, Moroccan Institute of Strategic Intelligence regulations, wages, compensations, and social welfare (IMIS), plans for the platform economy to become a schemes to adapt to the new economic realities of the powerful driver of the country’s economic and social 6 digital era. [...] The absence of a and delivery workers, these insights extend to the broader clear career path, or other options in the broader Moroccan platform economy in Morocco, emphasising the importance labour market further exacerbates their sense of economic of considering the lived experiences of workers and the insecurity and hopelessness. [...] conditions (one point) The terms and conditions governing platform work are not The platform must satisfy the following: always clear and accessible to workers.26 To achieve this • Adequate equipment and training is provided to protect point, the platform must demonstrate that workers are able 29 to understand, agree to, and access the conditions of their exempt the platform from liability for wor. [...] • The party contracting with the worker must be identified in the contract, and subject to the law of the place in • In case platform labour is mediated by subcontractors: which the worker works. [...] The platform implements a reliable mechanism to monitor and ensure that the subcontractor is living up to • The contract/terms & conditions are presented in full in the standards expected from the platform itself regarding clear and comprehensible language that all workers could working conditions.