The Angolan government announced on Monday, 7 September, the creation of a new welfare service for civil servants that will allow the payment of goods and services in instalments, alongside a range of additional benefits.
According to a report by Lusa, António Estote, a member of the technical group behind RINAR (Roadmap for the Implementation of the New Remuneration Architecture), explained that the measure stems from the restructuring of the existing Cofre de Previdência — the public sector welfare fund — and aims to extend to public administration employees benefits already available in the private sector.
The Ministry of Public Administration, Labour and Social Security hosted a briefing session in Luanda on Monday on the programme, which has been under way since 2023 and seeks to harmonise the organisation, career structures, and remuneration scales across Angola’s public service.
Among the new features outlined in the roadmap is the creation of additional non-monetary benefits for civil servants, enabling them to “pay for goods in instalments or request an advance for an emergency situation”, as well as to finance health insurance, training, and to access subsidised housing credit.
The restructuring of the welfare fund is one of the measures envisaged in the roadmap which, as Estote emphasised, “is not a reform” but rather “the path that will be followed to resolve problems gradually”.
One of the outcomes already delivered under RINAR is the simplification and harmonisation of career tracks and positions, previously scattered across 23 presidential decrees and now consolidated into “a single decree for all”.
The roadmap also aims to establish a remuneration table for the public service based on “a single rule for everyone”, while allowing individual sectors to define their own pay policies “depending on the sector, market, productivity, and profitability of enterprises”.
“This will make it possible to eliminate arbitrariness and improve the level of transparency in remuneration. The objective is to go even further and implement a unified pay scale,” Estote stated.
He noted that, unlike “other realities such as Portugal, Brazil, and Cabo Verde”, which already operate a unified pay scale, “RINAR defines policies and proposes scenarios”.
“Implementation continues to rest with the ministerial departments, depending on financial programming. Those measures that carry no budgetary impact are referred to the Executive’s programming so that their approval can be incorporated,” he clarified.
Estote stressed that a unified salary table can only be implemented immediately if it carries no budgetary impact. Should it do so, he added, “it becomes dependent on the Executive’s programming” — specifically on the General State Budget (OGE) — given that public expenditure of this nature requires approval by the National Assembly.
Source: Diário Económico
Original article: https://www.diarioeconomico.co.mz/?p=537822
