Mozambique: More than 2,000 labour disputes registered in H1 – Watch

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Mozambique: More than 2,000 labour disputes registered in H1 – Watch

3:10 CAT | 16 Sep 2022

Photo: Serviço Provincial de Justiça e Trabalho de Inhambane

Tourism and private security furnish most of the labour disputes registered in the country, according to data provided by the Labour Mediation Centre.

In the first six months of this year, the country registered more than two thousand labour conflicts, an “old problem” often associated with the lack of dialogue. Low wages and the ban on trade union activity are also highlighted as the main concerns among the factors which prevent a good working relationship between employers and workers in the country.

Workers often face difficulties in carrying out their activities. This ends up triggering strikes, motivated by the lack of openness to dialogue on the part of employers.

It is in the tourism and private security sectors that disagreements between employers and employers occur the most. “Agreements numbering 2,989 were reached across the country, which resulted in the reintegration of 622 workers and the payment of compensation of around 57 million meticais plus wages in arrears to the workers,” said president of the Labour Mediation Centre, Olga Manjate.

To reduce the number of labour disputes, the Labour Mediation Centre met employers and social partners in Inhambane province’s labour sector.

Manjate said there was work to be done to avoid the registration of cases of labour disputes in the country.

“We have lately seen disputes in private security companies, which frequently present labour issues and conflicts,” Manjate remarked, adding that the problem is related to “the lack of payment of salaries, compensation and the closure of some resorts, especially in the province of Inhambane, as a result of Covid-19.”

Manjate said that tourism resort closures between 2020 and 2021 had resulted in the loss of some workers’ jobs.

The lack of mediation centres in the districts is hampering the timely resolution of cases brought to the entity, Manjate maintains.

At the meeting, labour sector representatives discussed matters related to sector legislation, with emphasis on disciplinary procedures and labour arbitration.

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