Mozambique: Primary Education teachers did not go on strike, are supervising end-of.year exams – Government

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Mozambique: Primary Education teachers did not go on strike, are supervising end-of.year exams – Government

3:26 CAT | 16 Nov 2022

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The Mozambican Ministry of Education said this Tuesday that primary school teachers were “facilitating the ongoing end-of-year exams”, and had not made good on their threat to strike in protest at perceived anomalies in the new Single Salary Table (TSU).

“All the teachers whose classes are in the exam have joined the exams and everything is going very well,” the spokesman for the Ministry of Education and Human Development, Feliciano Mahalambe, told Lusa.

Mahalambe said that the authorities remained open to “permanent dialogue” aimed at correcting anomalies in the implementation of the TSU.

“The solution to errors does not lie in boycotting the exams, but in administrative channels, because the problems are of an administrative nature,” he added.

Several teachers of the sixth and seventh grades, the classes that are currently writing end-of-year exams, told Lusa that the exams were taking place normally, with the presence of those teachers scheduled for the operation.

Groups of teachers had threatened to boycott the exams that started on Monday across the country, in protest against what they consider framing errors in the new TSU.

The groups are mainly made up of Secondary Education teachers, whose end-of-year exams start on the 28th of this month.

In addition to teaching professionals, other professional classes have expressed dissatisfaction with the implementation of the new state remuneration matrix.

The Medical Association of Mozambique rescheduled for December 5 the national strike scheduled for a week ago after negotiating advances, but is still awaiting a response to various demands.

For its part, the Mozambican Association of Judges (AMJ) threatened to challenge the new salary model on the grounds that the instrument “calls in question the constitutional status of judges”.

On Wednesday, the Mozambican Minister of Economy and Finance, Max Tonela, said in parliament that the cases of net salary reduction in the civil service are the result of taxes being levied on wages paid under the new TSU.

Source: Lusa