Mozambique: Govt to “determine and validate” money owed to 7,937 health workers in shift work allowances

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Mozambique: Govt to “determine and validate” money owed to 7,937 health workers in shift work allowances

5:28 CAT | 06 Jan 2024

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The Mozambican government announced on Thursday that it is undertaking work to “establish and validate” money owed to almost 8,000 health employees, in relation to the payment of shift work allowances.

“It is important to note that work is underway to determine and validate the amount of the debt owed to 7,937 health employees, in all health units in the country,” a Ministry of Economy and Finance clarification sent to Lusa explains, in light of sectoral protests over these payments.

It adds that overtime worth a total of 67,799,228.37 meticais (€970,000), for 6,358 employees, reported in the health sector in 2022, was “validated and paid”.

In the 2023 financial year, 30 million meticais (€430,000) was paid to 300 health sector professionals, “and the process of validating the remaining debt should be resumed this month”.

Information from the Ministry of Economy and Finance also addresses reports of delays in these payments in health units in the province of Zambézia, explaining that this is a shift allowance, but already processed, in terms of commitment and settlement, of which 7,110,285,41 meticais (€102,000) refer to 327 employees at the Quelimane Central Hospital, and 832,826.78 meticais (€12,000) to 46 employees at the Quelimane General Hospital.

“These expenses are currently in the registration process and will be paid under the ‘Unpaid Expenses’ budget heading, considering that they had already been allocated and settled in 2023,” the MEF pledges.

Various professional classes, including teachers, doctors and health professionals, have complained about delays and cuts in the payment of salaries, overtime and other allowances since the public sector Single Salary Table (TSU) was introduced at the end of 2022, to strong contestation and criticism from various segments of the Mozambican state apparatus.

Source: Lusa