Mozambique won’t pay reinstatement allowances to the civil servants leaving office – report

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Mozambique won’t pay reinstatement allowances to the civil servants leaving office – report

3:21 CAT | 17 Jan 2025

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The Mozambican government has established that there will be no payment of the reinstatement allowance to civil servants who leave office at the end of this [previous] term, given the application of the rules of the new Single Salary Table (TSU), approved in 2022.

According to the Ministry of Economy and Finance – which has now been dissolved by the new President of the Republic, Daniel Chapo – the TSU “sets the criteria for the remuneration of the Bodies of Sovereignty, Civil Service, Institutes and Public Funds and all those who receive their salaries via the State Budget”.

The possibility of granting this reinstatement allowance, essentially to politicians who performed public functions in the last government term (since 2019) has been criticized in recent days by civil society organizations.

“With the implementation of the Single Salary Table (…) the reinstatement allowance is revoked, since Article 10, in its paragraph 4, establishes that civil servants, State agents and other public servants are not entitled to any other allowances other than those provided for by law,” reads the information from the finance ministry.

It also guarantees that civil servants, state agents and other public servants “are only entitled to remuneration based on specific aspects of the work performed”.

The new Mozambican head of state has reduced the number of Ministries and eliminated three state secretariats, merging several sectors and creating new entities.

According to a statement issued by the Presidency on Thursday, in his first presidential decree, Daniel Chapo, who had been sworn in the day before, ordered the abolition of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, the Ministry of Transport and Communications, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Ministry of Land and Environment, the Ministry of the Sea, Inland Waters and Fisheries, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, the Ministry of Education and Human Development; and the Ministry of Technology and Higher Education.

Three secretariats of state were also abolished, namely those of Youth and Employment, Sports and Higher Education.

In the same statement, the Mozambican Presidency indicated that the new head of state decided to create the following ministries: Ministry of Finance; Ministry of Economy; Ministry of Agriculture, Environment and Fisheries; Ministry of Transport and Logistics; Ministry of Education and Culture; Ministry of Labour, Gender and Social Action; Ministry of Communications and Digital Transformation; Ministry of Planning and Development; and Ministry of Youth and Sports.

On Wednesday, during his inauguration speech, Chapo promised to launch a broad reform of the State to reduce the number of ministries, create new entities, promote the digitalization of public services and combat corruption.

The elimination of the role of the vice-minister and the reformulation of the positions of secretaries of state and permanent secretaries, in addition to the review of the role of secretaries of state in the provinces were other promises made by the new head of state, who also said he would review the perks of public leaders and the state’s privatization program.

The digitalization of public services and the creation of a Ministry of Transport and Logistics, essentially dedicated to ports and railways, as well as the creation of a Court of Auditors and intermediate courts to streamline processes, along with arbitration centres, were other measures presented by Daniel Chapo with regard to state reform.

Source: Lusa