Mozambique: Statutory minimum wages rise by up to 16 per cent – AIM

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Mozambique: Statutory minimum wages rise by up to 16 per cent – AIM

8:02 CAT | 27 Apr 2023

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Mozambican Labour Minister Margarida Talapa on Tuesday announced increases in the statutory minimum wages of between 4.4 per cent, for workers of companies fishing for kapenta (otherwise known as Lake Tanganyika sardine) on the Cahora Bassa reservoir in Tete province, to 16.1 per cent for workers in large mining companies.

The wage rises, Talapa said, result from consensus achieved at the Labour Consultative Commission, the tripartite negotiating forum between the government, the employers and the trade unions.

The increases, she claimed, were “not what is desirable, but what is possible”.

As usual, the new wages are backdated to 1 April. The increases are only for workers on the minimum wage. All wages above the minimum are negotiated through collective bargaining between employers and unions, workplace by workplace.

Employers are also encouraged to set their own minimum wages, higher than the statutory minimum.

The rises announced by Talapa are as follows. Figures are in meticais, and the wages are monthly.

Agriculture, livestock, hunting and forestry: from 5,200 to 5,800, up 11.5%

Fishing

(a) industrial and semi-industrial: lfrom 5,820.75 to 6,220.75, up 6.9%

(b) Kapenta: from 4,591.68 to 4,791.68, up 4.4%

Mining

a) Large companies: from 10,353.58 to 12,020.2 , up 16.1%

b) Quarries & sandpits: from 5,850 to 7,380 8.5

c) Salt pans & small and medium companies: from 5,759 to 6,035 4.78

Manufacturing : from 7.945 to 8,747.5, up 10.1

( b) Bakeries 5,710 6,300 10.33

Electricity, gas and water

(a) Large companies 9,325 10,475 12.33

(b) Small companies 7,566.72 8,500 12.33

Building industry: from 6,700 to 7,409, up 10.6%

Non-financial services: from 7,774.5to 8,574, up 10.28%

(a) Hotels, tourism: from 6.950 to 7.715, up 11%

(b) Private security: from 7,525 to 8,464.5, up 8.87%

Financial services, and insurance companies

(a) banks: from 14,390.85 to 16,061.32, up 12%

(b) Microfinances: from 12,741.29 to 14,241.29, up 11.77%

Expressed in US dollars, the new wages range from 74.87 to 251 dollars a month.

Missing from this table are state employees (including the defence and security forces). The government will announce their new wages at a later date.

Source: AIM