The President of the Labor Department of the Confederations of Economic Associations of Mozambique (CTA), Paulino Cossa, guarantees that there is already consensus on the readjustment of the minimum wage in the country, although he doesn't say what the percentages will be.

"There are agreements in all sectors. So that's a given, I can't talk about the percentages yet because we're still going to assess them," said Cossa yesterday, Friday (26), in Maputo, in a brief contact established at the II Ordinary Session of the Labor Consultative Commission, a forum that includes the government, employers and unions.

Quoted by AIM, Cossa also explained that wage changes in the various sectors must take into account the sustainability of companies, inflation, the dynamics of social life and the macroeconomic performance of the sector, among other things.

"Each sector has the prerogative, depending on the sectoral facts, to negotiate until an agreement is reached," he said.

For his part, the spokesman for the National Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Mozambique (CONSILMO), Boaventura Simbine, assures that there are also agreements for the readjustment of the national minimum wage and defended that the ideal minimum wage to meet the needs of workers in the country should be 33,000 meticais, equivalent to the basic food basket.

"The important thing is that the current minimum wage is moved. All sectors will move the current minimum wages to others," said Boaventura Simbine.

Meanwhile, Simbine also complains about the violations that private security workers suffer in the course of their work, including the failure to pay minimum wages, social security payments and working hours that are not in accordance with the law.

For her part, the coordinator for working women at the OTM Central Trade Union, Clara Munguambe, said that both workers and employers were looking forward to the approval of the new minimum wages.

Government spokesman Joaquim Siuta, meanwhile, is calling for continued dialogue between the employer and the workers in order to find a solution that all parties can agree on.

"What we advise companies is that after the approval of the minimum wage, social dialog in companies must continue so that companies, depending on their reality, approve what is possible in these sectors," he concluded.