Gaisse construction, Sintrapel and Safaris Ltd best contributors to Mozambique’s Social Security

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Gaisse construction, Sintrapel and Safaris Ltd best contributors to Mozambique’s Social Security

10:53 CAT | 02 Nov 2016

Niassa Province’s Gaisse Construcoes, representing the northern region, Sintrapel (Tete), the centre, and Safaris Ltd (Gaza), representing the south, were jointly judged best contributors to the country’s mandatory social security contribution system in a public draw held last Tuesday in the SOJOGO bookmaker in Maputo in front of the press and representatives of MITESS, employers and trade unions.

This Thursday, it was the turn of Labour, Employment and Social Security Minister Vitoria Diogo to deliver the awards during the National Seminar on Collection of Social Security Contributions, jointly organized with the General Inspectorate of Labour (IGT) and which ended on Friday (October 28).

The National Seminar is a government initiative to encourage companies, employers and employees to channel workers’ contributions to the social security system to safeguard workers and their dependents. In addition to this legal requirement, the initiative also aims to raise awareness of this social business agenda component among other contributors. As Minister Diogo said during the awards ceremony, “capital is always accompanied by labour”. Without labour, she said, capital is meaningless.

Many companies around the country, small, medium and large, are exemplary contributors, Diogo said, but this time it was up to the three firms chosen to represent their own particular regions.

The companies representing the north, centre and south, were selected from a total of 11 chosen at provincial level by provincial business councils. Also in the list were Ceconur CD, Lda (Cabo Delgado), Sonil-Sociedade do Niassa, Lda (Nampula), Chico Import e Export International Mozambique (Zambezia), Agro Pecuária Zembe Chicamba (Manica), Promac (Sofala), Jala, Lda (Inhambane), Técnica Industrial (Maputo City) e Folha Verde ( Maputo Province). In order to be eligible, companies have to have been regular INSS contributors for at least 10 years.

Speaking at the draw, Confederation of Economic Associations of Mozambique (CTA) representative Victor Miguel said he considered the initiative of the utmost importance, since it recognised companies that paid contributions on time, and at the same time encouraged those in debt to regularise their situation “because it brings advantages for the company and for the worker”. The CTA called on the companies to try to pay social security contributions regularly in order to “create a good work environment and a good relationship with the workforce”.

The representative of Mozambique Workers’ Organization Trade Union Confederation (OTM-CS), Jessica Gune, also welcomed the initiative to reward contributors, because, in her view, this would encourage companies to contribute to social security, thereby allowing their workers enjoy the benefits the system offers.

Source: Magazine Independente