Mozambique: No substantial wage rise for public administration

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Mozambique: No substantial wage rise for public administration

8:00 CAT | 08 Jul 2022

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Despite the drafting of a new, unified wage table for the Mozambican public administration, there will be no significant wage rise for public servants, according to a document from the Ministry of Economy and Finance, cited in Thursday’ issue of the independent newssheet “Carta de Moçambique”.

There had been optimism that the Single Wage Table (TSU) would greatly improve the wages in the public administration, but the Ministry was at pains to dampen such enthusiasm.

There would be no general wage increase for state employees. Instead, the TSU “will lead to the elimination of the wage imbalances that currently exist in the Public Administration. Hence, it is not a wage revision that can be understood as an increase in wages in the public administration”.

But the Ministry did promise that the TSU will not lower anybody’s wages. If the new wage scale did lead to any individual being paid less than previously, he or she will receive a “wage adjustment allowance”.

Discrepancies will be eliminated “over the medium term”, the Ministry promised. The idea of the TSU is to consolidate the 103 existing wage scales in the public sector into just 21.

The highest wage will be paid to the President of the Republic, and his wage will be the reference point for all the wage tables.

So far, the government has kept the new wage scales confidential, but they will be announced this month, since July 2022 will be the first month in which public servants will be paid under the TSU.