3.8 billion meticais to reactivate career progressions

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3.8 billion meticais to reactivate career progressions

1:06 CAT | 26 Jun 2018

Adriano Maleiane, in file CoM

Good news for state employees! The Minister of Economy and Finance, Adriano Maleiane, announced on Monday that the state had begun to reinstate career promotions in the civil service.

In total, the state has 3.8 billion meticais to cover the expenses from promoting employees, since they will have to be paid more than they already receive in salaries.

The process of reactivating the promotions, by the way, should already be reaching its normal and continuous point. “The evaluation and promotion process is resumed. It was only interrupted; now that it has restarted. And of course, there has to be justice in the reactivation process, because there are those that should have been promoted a long time ago.”

By way of expediting the process, “the Ministry of State Administration and Public Administration has already given directives on how to proceed to reactivate administrative acts. Those who have the conditions to be promoted can already be promoted”.

Government will pay debts to SMEs to stimulate their production

Small and medium-sized enterprises in the country have recently been suffering from lack of funds to run their businesses. Some of them say that this is because the state owes them money.

To address this, the government is to pay off much of its debt to small and medium-sized enterprises. This was announced by Minister of Economy and Finance Adriano Maleiane, speaking yesterday on the sidelines of the independence day celebrations.

“We already have 1.7 billion meticais to address this part of the debts to suppliers. This is one way we have found to get small and medium-sized businesses back into production,” Maleiane explained.

In total, the state owes money to more than 300 companies in the country, ranging between large and medium in size. Of this number, just over 200 are small and medium-sized enterprises. The amount due is around 300 million meticais.

For Maleiane, the payment to these companies is irreversible, taking into account that “credit is still expensive, and if we pay these companies, they will have the liquidity to get back to work and thus keep jobs, and the economy will work again”.

Source: O País