The increase in minimum wages in Mozambique, ranging from 3% to 10.53%, will be retroactive to 1 April 2024, according to ministerial diplomas to which Lusa had access this Friday, 24 May.
According to the diplomas, the wage updates, dated 22 May, involve eight different sectors of the economy, with the last increase in minimum wages having taken place in April 2023.
On 30 April, the government approved minimum wage readjustments in the country, at a rate of between 3% and 10.53%, the Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Security, Rolinho Manuel Farnela, announced at the time.
‘The readjustment was the result of a proposal by the Labour Consultative Commission,’ he said after a meeting of the Council of Ministers in Maputo. He added: ‘The minimum points made public are not what is desirable, but what is possible, taking into account the current economic and social situation in our country.’
Among the sectors that registered increases, the segment that includes fishing stands out, with the lowest values, which, after the 3.3 per cent increase in the minimum wage, rises to 4941 meticals (72 euros). Also noteworthy is the sector that includes agriculture, livestock, hunting and forestry, where the wage was readjusted by 9.27 per cent to 6338 meticals (93 euros).
In the industrial and semi-industrial segment, the readjustment is 5 per cent, to 6531 meticals (95 euros). In mining for large companies and microfinance, among those with the highest minimum wages, the readjustment rate was 8 per cent, rising to 14,183 meticals (208 euros), and 10.53 per cent, rising to 15,741 meticals (231 euros), respectively.