Cabinet meeting decides on Correios, EMEM, foreign labour and more – Watch

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Cabinet meeting decides on Correios, EMEM, foreign labour and more – Watch

6:52 CAT | 27 May 2021

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The Mozambican government has decided, within the scope of its ongoing restructuring of the state business sector, to extinguish the company Correios de Moçambique and dissolve the Mozambican Mining Exploitation Company (EMEM).

Two separate decrees were approved at this Tuesday’s Council of Ministers session, one extinguishing and another dissolving the respective companies, Minister of Economy and Finance Adriano Maleane announced.

Minister Maleane said that measures for redeploying Empresa Correios de Moçambique staff and the compensation of others would cover over 500 employees.

The minister also announced that the government had approved a decree authorizing state holding company IGEPE to sell the DOMOS-Empresa Estatal real estate company, which manages a 33-storey building in central Maputo.

According to the spokesman for the 17th session of the Council of Ministers this Tuesday, the government also approved the delegation to the Minister of Economy and Finance of power to carry out extraordinary budget transfers to local authorities in the 2021 financial year.

The measure aims to minimise the effects of budget deficits arising as a result of reduced revenues due to the Covid-19 pandemic, thereby forestalling any worsening of service provision to residents.

The Council of Ministers also approved the simplification of Electrical Installations Licence regulations, and the national strategic plan for responding to HIV/Aids for the period 2021/2025.

Yesterday’s cabinet session also approved a decree concerning mechanisms and procedures for hiring citizens of foreign nationality, with the aim of promoting employment and self-employment, as well as improving the viability of absorbing national citizens in the job market.

Cabinet also considered with satisfaction the recent visit paid by President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, to France, and analysed The Charter for African Cultural Renaissance, an international legal instrument.