Tunisia-Bouden, Taboubi and Majoul sign social contract

Prime minister Najla Bouden met this Friday, August 12, 2022, with the UGTT Secretary General Noureddine Taboubi and the UTICA president, Samir Majoul at Kasbah Palace in the presence of Rani Bakhaâzi, Director of the regional office of the International Labor Organization.

The gathered parties indicated that a constructive dialogue founded on trust, transparency and a spirit of responsibility between the social parties is the sole way to get Tunisia out of the crisis and that the Tunisian experience in terms of social dialogue is part of the “pilot experiments”.

They believed that the social contract is an accomplishment that attests to the maturity that characterizes the relations between the different social parties.

Bouden, Taboubi and Majoul signed a social contract, called the “contract of perseverance” which makes it possible to confront exceptional social, economic and financial challenges and to support the national sovereignty of the independence of the national decision.

Among the conditions of the social contract, is the existence of will and trust.

The social partners have consented to hold dialogue sessions to reach deals on certain social issues and on economic reforms, beginning August 15, 2022.