The hiring of foreign labor in Mozambique is now subject to new quotas with the introduction of innovations in the regulations governing the matter.

According to the spokesman for the Ministry of Labor and Social Security (MITSS), Baltazar Egídio, who was speaking yesterday (19) on the sidelines of the second extraordinary plenary session of the Labor Consultative Council (CCT), among the innovations the most noteworthy are the quotas that are established according to the new classification of companies, which has gone from three to four criteria.

"These are the micro-enterprises introduced for the first time into the labor regime, whose quota for hiring foreign labor is up to 15%. And small, medium and large companies can hire up to 10, 08 and 05%, respectively," he explained, quoted by the AIM.

For the government official, the regulation is an adjustment to the new labor law, which is already in force in the country, since these matters still needed to be regulated. "This regulation accommodates the classification of companies established in the labor law," he added.

For his part, Paulino Cossa, president of the labor department at the Confederation of Economic Associations (CTA), said that the regulation brought changes aimed at regulating the obligations of workers and employers.

"The employment law has brought about many changes which mean that the regulations have to specify how to proceed," he said.

For his part, André Mandlate, a representative of the OTM-CS (Organization of Workers of Mozambique - Central Trade Union), said that there is a lot of foreign labour in the country doing tasks that could be done by Mozambicans.

"We need to bring in a skilled workforce and not one that comes to learn from Mozambicans," he warned.

The event also discussed the proposed regulation of private agencies in the country, the tables on the costs of mediation, reconciliation and labor arbitration in the country, among other matters.

(Photo DR)