Mozambique: Government approves TSU, Single Salary Table for public employees

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Mozambique: Government approves TSU, Single Salary Table for public employees

2:39 CAT | 29 Jun 2022

Photo: O País

Mozambique’s cabinet has approved a statute establishing a Single Salary Table (TSU) for public employees, to take effect next month, replacing 103 tables with 21 different pay scales.

“Salaries to be paid in July will be in accordance with the Single Salary Table,” the cabinet spokesman, Filimão Suaze, told journalists on Tuesday at the end of the meeting at the in Maputo office of Mozambique’s president.

The new criteria for setting salaries, approved by parliament in December, use the salary of the head of state as a benchmark for setting the salaries for holders of public and sovereign bodies.

The cabinet spokesman explained that the government would not announce the specific amount for each level, taking the view that there is work being done in each sector to define these figures.

“I understand the anxiety of our fellow civil servants, but it will be resolved as we approve these specific regulatory instruments,” Swaze said, promising more details after the next time the cabinet meets, usually on Tuesdays.

The legislation establishing rules and criteria for fixing the remuneration of state employees and agents and other public servants was approved by consensus by the three parties in parliament.

The document establishes that the country’s president receives a monthly salary equivalent to 100% of salary level 21A – the top of 21 brackets – plus a representation subsidy equivalent to 40% of salary.

The president currently earns just over 205,000 meticais (€3,000).

In parliament, the then minister of economy and finance, Adriano Maleiane, had said that the law simplifies the rules for setting state salaries, eliminating 103 scales currently in force in the civil service.

The law approved by the parliament provides for the harmonisation of criteria for setting state salaries, with four criteria at the centre of the formula: academic qualifications, seniority, career and age.

The document provides for 21 salary levels, with the first level for the lowest salary and the 21st for the highest, with these to determine in which level a public employee falls.

The article that uses the salary of the country’s president as an indexing factor has been contested by the Mozambican Association of Judges, which rejected its application to professionals in their class, on the grounds that it violates the principle of separation of powers.

Source: Lusa