Mozambique: Government establishes rules for publishing job vacancies and pre-professional internships – Watch

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Mozambique: Government establishes rules for publishing job vacancies and pre-professional internships – Watch

4:44 CAT | 07 Nov 2023

Photo: Secretaria de Estado da Juventude e Emprego_Oficial

Communication of job vacancies and pre-professional internships must be made to the Government seven days before their publication in any other medium or body specialising in personnel recruitment. Failure to comply may result in fines for employers.

Speaking on Monday in Maputo, the Secretary of State for Youth and Employment, Oswaldo Petersburgo, explained that Decree 45/2023 of August 3rd covers, above all, state or public institutions.

“This decree fills a legal void which lasted for several years in this matter and that conditioned the actions of public and private employment/recruitment services and agencies in obtaining, in a timely manner, data on the behaviour of the labour market, in terms of the number of vacancies that the national economy generates in a temporal and geographic context, and by specialty,” he said.

According to Petersburgo, the labour market should be better organised for the collection, production and dissemination of employment statistics.

“By enacting this regulation we are demonstrating our commitment to creating meaningful opportunities for youth, without any type of discrimination,” he said.

It is the Government’s intention, according to the Secretary of State for Youth and Employment, that the regulation reduces information asymmetries and improves transparency about job opportunities.

The Regulation on Communications of Pre-professional Job Vacancies and Internships, launched on Monday, stipulates that public or private employers who offer job vacancies or pre-professional internships must communicate the vacancies to the Government, through the Public Employment Portal, by electronic mail or in physical format.

This sharing of job opportunities must occur within a minimum period of seven days before their disclosure to entities specialising in recruitment.

Failure to comply with these provisions may result in sanctions ranging from a warning to the payment of fines to the value of five minimum wages for the respective sector of activity, that is, “when the communication of vacancies was made after their publication”. If the same offence is repeated within six months, the sanctioned entity will be fined again as provided with an increase of 50%.

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Source: MzNews