The salaries of State employees and agents, for the month of October, are since Tuesday in conformity with the new Single Wage Table (TSU). The information was provided yesterday, 26 October, by the Minister of Economy and Finance, Max Tonela.
About the complaints presented by the doctors’ class, the police and the university professors, the minister explained that, because this is a deep and comprehensive reform, these are predictable situations.
“That is why all the payments, this month, are being made taking into account the framework considered as provisional, since according to the instituted decrees there is space for the people – wanting – to complain of the framework,” said Tonela, who underlined the fact that there is a response time that the Government, through the established commissions, should comply with. Only afterwards will salaries be considered definitive.
Tonela also noted that the Government has a reform package with a calculated value to be allocated, approved by Parliament, of around 19 billion meticais per year. Thus, “any payment of the expenditure as a whole respects this limit”, he explained.
On Monday, the Association of University Professors of Mozambique submitted a letter of protest to the ministers of Economy and Finance and of State Administration and Public Service expressing their dissatisfaction with the results of the implementation of the TSU.
According to the letter, the university lecturers are outraged that Decree No. 50/2022, of 14 October, which approves the procedures to be adopted for the framing of public servants, holders or members of public bodies and holders and members of the bodies of the Administration of Justice in the TSU, “completely ignores the Government’s promises.”
The approval by Parliament and promulgation by the President of the Republic of the new TSU occurred at the second attempt, after the document was returned by the Executive to Parliament following the detection of “inconsistencies”.
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 in the first six months.
The new salary matrix in the State has 21 levels, between 8756 and 165 758 meticais, instead of 103 levels, as occurred previously.
