Africa-Press – Angola. Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi promulgated, this Monday, the law introducing the Single Salary Table (TSU) in Public Administration, according to a statement from the Presidency of the Republic.
The law was approved on Friday by the Assembly of the Republic of Mozambique, with the Government considering the TSU essential for the retention of staff and salary justice in the State.
The table was approved by consensus among the three benches of the Mozambican Parliament, receiving prolonged applause from all the deputies, being one of the few documents that was unanimous in the body.
The Minister of Economy and Finance of Mozambique, Max Tonela, who defended the text in Parliament on behalf of the Executive, said that the table will promote fair wages, retain staff and save resources for the State.
“It is essentially aimed at stabilizing State employees and agents in the Public Administration, achieving a balance of salaries between similar professional careers and rationalizing salary tables and the respective subsidies”, emphasized Max.
The official said in August that TSU will imply the retroactive payment of salary increases that Public Administration staff will enjoy as a result of the implementation of the new table.
The table had already been approved by the Assembly of the Republic and promulgated by President Filipe Nyusi in February, but was returned to the Council of Ministers and then to Parliament, after its entry into force was halted in July, following what Max Tonela classified as “nonconformities”.
The Minister of Economy and Finance said in Parliament that the implementation of the new model will have a budgetary impact of 9.2 billion meticais (142 million euros) in the first six months.
The new salary matrix in the State has 21 levels, between 8,756 and 165,758 meticais (between 134 and 2,580 euros), instead of 103 levels, as was the case before.
According to data from the Public Accounting Directorate, around 306,000 employees, 80% of a total of 382,728 active State employees, were already qualified and able to receive their salaries in accordance with the criteria defined in the new salary scale.
The annual impact of the application of the new instrument is estimated at 19.6 billion meticais (302 million euros), according to data from the Ministry of Economy and Finance.
The document defines that the President of Mozambique receives a monthly salary corresponding to the top of the 21 levels, plus a representation allowance equivalent to 40 percent of the respective salary.
The Mozambican government believes that the new “wage pyramid” in the state will reduce the weight of civil service salaries from around 13 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) to 8 percent over the next four years.
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