Mozambique: Commander calls for “calm” as police officers await new salary scale – Watch

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Mozambique: Commander calls for “calm” as police officers await new salary scale – Watch

3:34 CAT | 21 Oct 2022

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The general commander of the Mozambican police said today that the application of the new Single Salary Table (TSU) to the corporation still depends on the correction of “some anomalies”, and called for “calm”.

“Colleagues, keep calm. The existence of some anomalies in the police salary table has been found,” Bernardino Rafael said during a visit to Cabo Delgado provincial command in the north of the country.

This will delay the payment of salaries through the TSU, Rafael said, quoted by Radio Moçambique.

Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi enacted the law introducing the new public administration salary scale on the 10th of this month after its approval by the Assembly of the Republic of Mozambique.

The TSU raises the minimum wage and is deemed “essential” for retaining staff and providing salary fairness for state employees.

The Minister of Economy and Finance announced on Wednesday that civil servants would start receiving salaries according to the new table this month, while retroactive payments (due since July) will be paid from November.

In the case of the police, according to Bernardino Rafael, the problems have already been presented to the President of the Republic and now “one can only wait, with all due respect,
for a response”, so that the TSU rates can be applied.

“The message has reached him, and we will wait,” Rafel stressed, asking police officers to continue working and not be carried away by “the emotions of some people [acting] in bad faith”.

The new state salary matrix has 21 levels, ranging between 8,756 and 165,758 meticais (€134 and €2,580), instead of the 103 different rates it had previously.

Watch the Miramar report.