The President of the Republic, Kaïs Saïed, once again expressed his desire to end the precariousness of work in Tunisia.
Received yesterday at the Palais de Carthage, the Minister of Social Affairs, Issam Lahmar, addressed with the head of state a site as symbolic as it is sensitive: the abolition of subcontracting in the public sector and its withdrawal of the labor code.
This positioning marks an explicit rejection of flexibility practices imposed in the name of administrative or economic efficiency. For Kais Saied, these devices reflect an unbearable dehumanization of the world of work.
“The human entity can in no way be reduced to figures or decimal numbers,” he insisted. The worker, whether in the public or the private, has the right to stability, dignity and full recognition of his rights.
More than a simple social declaration, it is a political vision of the role of the State that the President draws: that of a guarantor of fundamental rights, capable of concretizing them by fair taxation, a better distribution of wealth and governance based on social justice.
The president sees in this structural reform an opportunity to relaunch the economy on human bases. “A reassured and stable worker is a more productive worker,” he said, reversing the classic equation between labor and performance.
In the background, Kais Saied offers a rereading of the Tunisian political economy: for him, it is only by guaranteeing a climate of justice and equity that the country can, in its words, “transform the unrealizable into achieveable”.
