Mozambique: Government admits delays in paying overtime to teachers – Lusa

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Mozambique: Government admits delays in paying overtime to teachers – Lusa

1:31 CAT | 05 Jul 2023

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The Mozambican Minister of Education today admitted there had been delays in the payment of overtime to teachers, while simultaneously asking professionals to continue to carry on working.

“We are aware that we owe this debt to our fellow teachers, but we wanted to reassure them,” because “at the opportune moment, these hours will be paid”, Carmelita Namashulua told the media.

Minister Namashulua was speaking in Maputo on the sidelines of the VII International Congress on Environmental Education for Countries in the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) and Galicia.

The minister asked teachers to “continue to do their part”, noting that the “window for paying overtime was not eliminated, but rather suspended” as part of the improvement and management of the Single Salary Table (TSU).

“First, we have to better manage and frame all concerns related to TSU. Not only the overtime window, but also other windows,” Namashulua stressed.

In 2022, teachers threatened to boycott exams across the country in protest at irregularities in the framework of the new salary scale, approved the same year in a bid to eliminate asymmetries and manage the state’s wage bill in the medium term.

The implementation of the TSU is being strongly contested by several professional classes in Mozambique due to perceived errors in the framework of the different salary scales, with doctors and health professionals leading strikes in protest.

The implementation of the TSU caused wages to rise by around 36%, from 11.6 billion meticais a month (about €169 million) to 15.8 billion meticais (€231 million).

Source: Lusa