Health union denounces retreat on centralising salaries
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on LesEco.ma
The National Federation of the Health Sector, affiliated with the UNTM, accuses the government of backtracking on the 23 July 2024 agreement with the 2027 draft budget. According to the union, listing salaries under miscellaneous expenses rather than personnel expenses threatens civil servants' financial and administrative guarantees.
The National Federation of the Health Sector, affiliated with the National Labour Union of Morocco (UNTM), denounces a retreat by the government on the centralisation of health civil servants' salaries. In an open letter addressed to the head of government, it objects that the draft 2027 sectoral budget lists these salaries under miscellaneous expenses and equipment, rather than under personnel expenses of the general State budget.
The union recalls that the agreement signed on 23 July 2024 had upheld the payment of salaries from the general State budget, through the General Treasury. This provision was carried over into Article 23 of the 2025 Finance Act. For the federation, this change is not a simple accounting adjustment: it undermines the financial and administrative guarantees granted to professionals under the reform of the national health system.
It asks the head of government to intervene to correct this direction, while the ministry’s budget rises by nearly 3 billion dirhams for the 2027 financial year.
