Jobless organize a national sit-in out of the presidency headquarters

Algiers- Jobless and people with vulnerable jobs are organizing a sit-in out of the presidency headquarter, aiming to submit a list of demands to the President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

Jobless and workers of vulnerable jobs are calling up the president to intervene and put an end to the suffering of this class through opening new job opportunities, and force the government to ensure progressive aid to their problems, and stop security harassment and deterrent measures against the large number of jobless.

The sit-in organized by the National Committee for Defending Rights of Jobless, under the slogan “Sit-in for Dignity”. It will submit a list of demands, foremost, to stop all harassments and shameful practices by public and private companies against this category of society, with a stop of prosecutions.

The committee also called upon government to provide a grant of 50% of the minimum national wage for jobless youth, and demarcate all temporary workers and employers with pre-employment contracts and social network, and involve unemployed in resolving this problem or at least to help them benefit from the services of social insurance, with the exemption of all youth aged 25 from the military service and reduce it to six months.

Samir Laarabi, spokesman for the committee told Echorouk; “The sit-in is very important, especially as hundreds of jobless decided to move to the capital Algiers and join the protest, aiming to the voice of dignity to the higher authorities of the country, and to condemn exclusion, favoritism and marginalization, and all shameful practices against this category, particularly, those which happened following the disclaimer of the Labor Ministry from its promises which it made to jobless who did not find one to listen to their concerns and suffering despite the protests of the whole year out of the ministry and offices of employment in various Algerian localities”.