Mozambique approves changes to minimize complaints about the TSU

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Mozambique approves changes to minimize complaints about the TSU

2:21 CAT | 14 May 2025

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The Mozambican government approved yesterday a new decree on the Career, Remuneration and Professional Qualification System for the public administration, admitting that the instrument will minimize failures and complaints within the scope of the Single Salary Table (TSU).

“We expect this process to minimize the set of problems that have been raised by several employees and agents of the state who demand various aspects that arise from the implementation of this reform [TSU] since 2022 and that have more to do with the way in which careers were treated and standardized,” explained Council of Ministers spokesperson Inocêncio Impissa at the end of the weekly session of that body in Manica, in the centre of the country.

At issue are the failures in the framework within the scope of the application of the TSU, since 2022, raised mainly by the education and health sectors, with stoppages and strikes that led to negotiations with the Mozambican executive.

The new legal instrument approved by the Government of Mozambique revokes Decrees No. 30/2018 and No. 14/2017.

The new decree aims, explained the government spokesperson, to harmonize professional qualifications with salary levels established in the TSU and to define minimum and maximum levels of careers and professional categories and their progression criteria.

The government also stated that the new legal instrument approved was drawn up taking into account the specificities of each sector of the civil service with the intention of finding “sustainable” solutions to minimize the problems and complaints of the civil service in the face of previous salary discrepancies within the scope of the TSU.

“We believe that (…) the results we expect will be minimized, (…) we will improve over time and the demands will require the emergence of new concerns, situations that perhaps had not been foreseen,” said Impissa.

Approved in 2022 to eliminate asymmetries and keep the state’s wage bill under control, the TSU caused wages to soar by around 36%, from an expenditure of 11.6 billion meticais/month (€169 million/month) to 15.8 billion meticais (€231 million).

The TSU cost around 28.5 billion meticais (€410 million), “more than expected”, according to a document from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on the evaluation of the assistance program for Mozambique released in 2024.

Source: Lusa