Abstract

More than 1.6 million Moroccans worked without pay. They represent 15.3% of workers and are almost all "family workers", which means that one out of seven employed workers had an unpaid job, working for no consideration for a family member. It is a form of work, that remains invisible, However, its importance is recognized more and more, and the need to understand its role and nature has increased. This form of work constitutes a palliative to unemployment. It alleviates the pressure exerted by unemployment on governments, but it should not be a substitute for the goal of achievingdecent work. Since a high proportion of employees in a country can mean a advanced economic development. If the proportion of family workers is high, this may indicate low development, large agricultural sector and low growth of the formal economy. Moreover, family workers are the most vulnerable - and therefore the most likely to sink into poverty. They are the least likely to have formal working conditions, are the least likely to have social protection. This paper is an esssay that approach the familly workers and analyse their situation, based on the analysis of the latest data from the Labour force survey of Morocco