Mozambique govt paid more than 150 million meticais over 5 years in compensation and salary arrears

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Mozambique govt paid more than 150 million meticais over 5 years in compensation and salary arrears

1:06 CAT | 07 Nov 2018

Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Security Victória Diogo. Photo: AIM

In the last five years, the Mozambican government has paid a total of 155 million meticais [around US$2.4 million at current exchange rates] in compensation and salary arrears to state employees.

The information was presented on Thursday (November 1) in Maputo by the Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Security, Vitória Diogo, at the opening ceremony of the VIII National Meeting of the Commission for Labour Mediation and Arbitration (COMAL), held under the motto “For Labour Peace and Stability”.

“The work of the Commission for Mediation and Labour Arbitration during this five-year period shows an increasing trend in the number of agreements reached in mediation, underlining the crucial role of the COMAL family in promoting and guaranteeing peace and stability in the workplace,” the minister said, quoted by AIM.

Vitória Diogo noted that in the latest five-year period, 27,524 cases were registered at the national level, of which 26,325 were mediated, resulting in 21,968 agreements, representing 83.4% cases successfully solved.

The private security, civil construction, services and commerce sectors registered the highest rate of conflicts, and unfair dismissal the commonest cause for seeking labour mediation.

As for conflict prevention, the minister said the central message must always be to encourage a rapprochement between employers and workers by signing them up to principles of reciprocity, good faith and complementarity, thereby sustaining a healthy balance and relationship between the interests of capital and labour.

The minister reported that a number of conflict-prevention activities had been undertaken, including 2,386 awareness-raising lectures giving advice to employers and workers in companies.

“And, at the same time, 64 successful interventions were carried out in situations of strike warnings and actual strikes during this period, with a view to bringing the parties concerned closer to overcoming disputes through dialogue,” she said.

Minister Diogo further pointed out that the out-of-court settlement of labour disputes was extremely important in promoting decent and lasting employment through actions to consolidate and maintain the workforce in the workplace.

COMAL was therefore called upon to fulfil the noble mission of increasing conflict prevention actions and promoting mechanisms for the rapprochement of employers and workers in the productive sector, she said.

Source: Notícias