They missed proof of life: 31,000 workers at risk of loosing salaries in Mozambique

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They missed proof of life: 31,000 workers at risk of loosing salaries in Mozambique

5:12 CAT | 04 Jul 2016

Folha de Maputo

At least 31 thousand employees and agents of the state are likely to see their salaries frozen from the end of this month because they have not provided biometric data as instructed, reports Notícias.

According to Ministry of Economy and Finance information, 2015 saw the roll-out of an Electronic Register of Public and State Employees – the e-CAF platform – designed to verify the details of employees and agents on the state payroll using biometric data, thereby improving the management of human resources in the civil service and facilitating the rationalisation of public spending.

More than 309,000 employees and agents were fingerprinted in this exercise, according to data provided to Notícias by the Systems Development and Information Centre Finance (CEDSIF) in the Ministry of Economy and Finance.

The government’s perception is that fingerprinting offers greater reliability in the management of the state’s human resources, being less liable to data tampering than manual registration, and has the added advantage of being accessible by computer anywhere in the country. The ultimate goal of this process is to stop the state continuing to pay salaries to people who are no longer working or who have forgone the right to receive the money for whatever other reason.

By April this year, more than a thousand employees and agents with duplicated credentials, or who declined the test or were in some other way non-compliant, had been discovered.

Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosario told the Assembly of the Republic last week that in order to control expenditure better, the government intended extending the unitary employees and agents payroll system across the entire country.

The public payment computer platform also requires public officials involved in investment spending to provide a contract number, the date won and the approval of the Administrative Court.

Source: Notícias