Mozambique |TSU: Judges warn that the Single Salary Table may be Illegal and unconstitutional

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Mozambique |TSU: Judges warn that the Single Salary Table may be Illegal and unconstitutional

3:02 CAT | 07 Nov 2022

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The Mozambican Association of Judges is holding an extraordinary General Assembly today, November 7, to contest the law that approves the Single Salary Table (TSU) and its complementary diplomas.

A document signed by the association’s president, Carlos Mondlane, expresses the judges’ indignation towards the TSU, stating that their rights to adequate remuneration are being compromised, and they had therefore decided to meet to reflect on the matter, which they describe as “legislation which, from the outset, appears to be unconstitutional and illegal”.

According to the document, the approval of the TSU and the successive complementary decrees “severely affected the remuneration status of Mozambican judges, as they not only removed from judges of different categories their status of holders and as members of a sovereign body (the Justice Court) but also, in general, negatively affected a set of rights previously established by the professional class”.

The document also advances that the “deterioration of the professional statute of judge” violates the Constitution of the Republic and other international legal instruments to which Mozambique is a signatory, as the independence of the judiciary must be guaranteed by the state and it is everyone’s duty to respect this, which hat not happened.

“In this sense, it is essential that judges, individually and collectively, honour, respect and uncompromisingly defend the independence of the judiciary, not allowing […] its statute to be eroded,” the document reads.

The profession previously contested some provisions of the TSU in September, 2021.

Source: Diário Económico