Africa-Press – Angola. The Roadmap for the Implementation of the New Remuneration Architecture (RINAR) for public administration, in Angola, envisages completing the reforms in 2025, with a gradual start from the first half of 2024.
The document was approved this Tuesday at the 7th ordinary meeting of the Economic Commission of the Council of Ministers, chaired by the President of the Republic, João Lourenço.
According to the Minister of Public Administration, Labor and Social Security (MAPTSS), Teresa Dias, in the first half of 2024, the first phase of diagnosis will be completed to obtain more data from the three powers, the Executive, Legislative and Judicial, where there are disparate salaries.
“A pre-diagnosis has already started to be carried out and will dictate what the reform of public service remuneration will be”, he said.
Speaking to the press at the end of the meeting, Teresa Dias admitted that, in terms of comparative law, the salaries earned by public servants in Angola are very low, looking at the current reality of countries in the SADC region.
He added that “salary” is a current topic, accompanied by some demands in some public sectors.
“Currently, in terms of remuneration in public administration, in the broadest sense, the Executive noticed that the three powers, the Executive, Legislative and Judicial, have different salaries”, he stated.
To respond to the impact of currency and market fluctuations, and to be able to provide comfort to the mass of public employees, he said that there have been improvements in supplements (subsidies), often higher than salaries, a practice that he disapproves of.
Within the framework of this salary reform, which is intended to be balanced, the minister clarifies that the process will follow three phases, being the diagnosis, after the pre-diagnosis has taken place, the implementation phase and the final phase that will evaluate all stages.
“We are not going to wait until 2025 to start everything at once. As we progress, we will gradually improve this entire route. When we reach the final phase, we will have the architecture fully assembled, benefiting everyone”, he explained.
The Executive intends, with the initiative, to define clear criteria for salary increases, based on the economic context, attributing competitive remuneration to public servants, taking into account their performance, competence and experience.
In Angola, the public service employs more than 300 thousand people.
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