Written by Aziz Allilou | From Morocco World News

Amid a flash point controversy in reforming the country’s ailing retirement system, the Moroccan Parliament has passed a new bill to increase the retirement age of the educational sector’s employees to 65.

On Tuesday, the Moroccan government issued a new decree that raises the retirement age of the educational sector’s employees from 60 to 65, according to the Official Bulletin of the Kingdom of Morocco (BORM).

The new law came into effect on August 2, and requires primary and secondary teachers who are already 60 to keep teaching, rather than being referred for retirement.

As the new law was issued in the BORM, many media outlets reported that the retirement increase concerns all the state’s employees.

Alyaoum 24 quoted the Moroccan Minister-delegate for Public Service and Administration Modernization, Mohamed Moubdi, as saying that “the new retirement increase concerns the teachers only. But, it was misread by many media outlets.”

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