Mozambique: Finance Ministry officials protest against errors in single salary table

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Mozambique: Finance Ministry officials protest against errors in single salary table

1:26 CAT | 03 Nov 2022

Photo: Miramar

Dozens of employees of the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Mozambique gathered early on Wednesday morning outside the ministry’s headquarters in Maputo to protest against errors in the new wage levels in force in the civil service.

Witnesses told Lusa that ministry workers left their offices soon after the beginning of the working day and gathered at the main entrance.

The workers spontaneously dispersed a few hours later under the watchful eye of members of the Rapid Intervention Unit Police (UIR) and of the Protection Police.

In a video of the gathering circulating on social media, a woman’s voice can be heard saying: “We want what is rightfully ours”, in an apparent allusion to cases of reduction in wages which the government has already acknowledged are being caused by framing errors in the new Single Salary Table (TSU).

The Ministry of Economy and Finance promised to make a statement on the matter later today.

In a note issued on the 28th of November, the Medical Association of Mozambique threatened to go on a national strike to challenge irregularities in the framing of the TSU, approved and signed into law in October.

“The strike will last for 21 extendable days, starting at 7:00 a.m. on 7 November,” the Mozambican Medical Association said, a day after a national meeting which brought together doctors from across the country.

In letters published in the media, teachers have also threatened to paralyse activity and boycott the exams due to begin in the coming weeks, complaining about errors in the new state salary scales.

Minister of Economy and Finance Max Tonela said in parliament in October that there was “room” for civil servants to lodge complaints for the correction of their position in the new TSU.

“There is room for people, if they wish, to complain about the framing and, depending on that, there is a response time and then we will have the definitive salaries,” Tonela said.

The TSU was approved by parliament and promulgated by the President of the Republic for the second time in October, after the document was returned by the executive to Parliament following the detection of “inconsistencies.”

The new state wage matrix has 21 salary levels, ranging from 8,756 to 165,758 meticais (€134 to €2,580), instead of 103 levels, as was the case previously.

Source: Lusa