Mozambique: CTA and unions ensure there are consensuses for minimum wage adjustments

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Mozambique: CTA and unions ensure there are consensuses for minimum wage adjustments

10:12 CAT | 27 Apr 2024

FILE - Members of the Labor Advisory Committee. [File photo: AIM]

The President of the Labor Department of the Confederation of Mozambican Economic Associations (CTA), Paulino Cossa, assures that there are already agreements for the adjustment of the minimum wage in the country, although without specifying the percentages.

“There are agreements in all sectors. Therefore, this is a given, regarding the percentages I cannot speak yet because we still need to evaluate,” said Cossa yesterday (26), in Maputo, in a brief contact established at the II Ordinary Session of the Labor Advisory Committee, a forum that includes government, employers, and unions.

Cossa further explained that the adjustment of salaries in various sectors should take into account the sustainability of companies, inflation, dynamics of social life, sectorial macroeconomic performance, among others.

“Each sector has the prerogative to, based on the domain of sectoral facts, negotiate until reaching an agreement,” he said.

On the other hand, the spokesperson for the National Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Mozambique (CONSILMO), Boaventura Simbine, ensures that there are also agreements for the adjustment of the national minimum wage and advocated that the ideal minimum wage to meet the needs of workers in the country should be 33,000 meticais (about 517 dollars), equivalent to a basic basket.

“The important thing is for the current minimum wage to be adjusted. All sectors will move the current minimum wages to others,” he said.

Simbine also complains about the violations suffered by private security workers in the exercise of their functions, highlighting the lack of payment of minimum wages, social security payments, and the application of working hours without compliance with the law.

On the other hand, the coordinator of working women at OTM Central Union, Clara Munguambe, said there is greater expectation both for workers and employers in the approval of new minimum wages.

Government spokesperson Joaquim Siuta calls for continued dialogue between employers and workers to find a solution that satisfies all parties.

“What we advise companies is that after the approval of the minimum wage, social dialogue in companies must continue so that companies, according to their reality, approve what is possible in these sectors,” he said.

Source: AIM