Africa-Press – Mozambique. Mozambique’s President Daniel Chapo promised on Friday in Quelimane to refine “inconsistencies” in the Single Salary Scale (TSU) as a way of doing justice to civil servants and state agents.
“I will also add here some challenges (…), such as certain details that we are continuing to resolve regarding the TSU, for which we have approved qualifiers (…) to find a way to do justice,” said Chapo at a meeting with district administrators, heads of administrative posts and localities in the central province of Zambezia, where he is on a working visit.
At issue are concerns raised by officials from different sectors of the state to the president, such as education and health, who seek faster overtime payment systems and call for “better framework” in the TSU, which in the last two years has attracted heavy criticism and culminated in strikes by teachers, doctors and judges, among other classes
The government approved the TSU in 2022 to eliminate asymmetries and keep the state’s wage bill under control. The TSU caused salaries to skyrocket by about 36 percent, increasing the expenditure from 11.6 billion meticais per month (€169 million per month) to 15.8 billion meticais per month (€231 million/month), according to previous government data, while employees seek greater equality and full pay.
The TSU cost around 28.5 billion meticais (€410 million), “more than expected”, according to a document from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on the assessment of the assistance programme for Mozambique released in early 2024.
Daniel Chapo announced in June that the government has several reforms underway in the public sector, including the implementation of the Single Salary Scale, the review of careers and professional qualifications, and the development of platforms such as the civil servant portal and the future citizen portal.
The Ministry of Economy and Finance explained on 1 December 2024 that the TSU reform aims to standardise and reduce designations for similar professional functions and categories and to establish a salary scale that brings together professional functions and categories with identical job content and complexity.
On the other hand, the initiative also was described as aiming to “enhance and professionalise” civil servants working in the direct and indirect administration of the State, to ensure the “continuous improvement of the provision of quality public services”.
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