The authorities have detained three employees of the Center for the Development of Financial Information Systems (CEDSIF) accused of involvement in a fraud scheme that damaged the Mozambican state by almost six million meticais, it was announced. According to a note sent to Lusa yesterday by the Attorney General's Office (PGR), with the connivance of another employee...
Twitter kicks off employee dismissal process
Twitter will start laying off employees this Friday, the social network said in an email sent to workers, a week after it was acquired by businessman Elon Musk. "We will begin the difficult process of reducing our global workforce on Friday [today]," Twitter said Thursday in an email seen by AFP and cited by Lusa. A...
SERNIC arrests Migration officials suspected of facilitating entry of foreigners
Five employees of the Migration Services were arrested on suspicion of facilitating the entry of foreigners seeking to recruit members for the drug trafficking that finances terrorists in Mozambique, the Mozambican police announced today. The officials were arrested as a result of an arrest warrant issued by the Judicial Court of Sofala Province, as part of...
Elon Musk backs down on intention to fire 10% of Tesla employees
The CEO of the streetcar company has backtracked on his intention and announced this weekend that he will increase the number of employees at the company over the next 12 months after all. The message was communicated via his Twitter account. Elon Musk said on Saturday that the electric vehicle maker's total headcount...
Musk wants to fire 10% of Tesla employees: 'I have a bad feeling about the economy'
Elon Musk, the owner of Tesla, argues that the electric car company needs to "make a 10% reduction in staffing." The tech mogul's claims appear in an email sent on Thursday to Tesla executives, to which Reuters news agency had access. In the message, titled "Pause in all...
Mozambique's postal employees continue to live in a situation of uncertainty
The company Correios de Moçambique is undergoing a privatization process since 2021. Hundreds of employees live in a situation of uncertainty, without knowing until when they will have work. The government announced last year by decree that one of the most represented public companies in the country was going to be privatized. Since then, Estanislau Tenense, one of the company's 350 employees...
Las Vegas casino surprises thousands of employees with $5,000 bonus
The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas surprised its more than 5,000 employees this Wednesday with a one-time $5,000 bonus. The resort said it gave an "unprecedented" $27 million to workers during a festive event that was topped off with a "climactic drum roll" and confetti when Cosmopolitan CEO Bill...
Amelia Muendane urges AT employees to be incorruptible
The president of the tax authority of Mozambique (AT), requires the officials of that institution to be incorruptible and ruthless in complying with the law, aiming to make the tax system more solid, robust and efficient. The challenge was launched this Tuesday in Pemba, Cabo Delgado, by Amelia Muendane, president of the Tax Authority, in the act of patenting of 32 tax documents...
Concluded the process of transitioning AT employees to a single career
More than 3,800 employees of the Tax Authority of Mozambique (AT), including customs and tax, who had been stagnant without professional development since 2012, have just moved to a single career path. According to the president of the AT, Amelia Muendane, this marks the completion of the transition process, started in 2016, benefiting, in its entirety, 3833 employees. Speaking about the...
State expels nearly 200 civil servants
The Deputy Minister of State Administration, Inocêncio Impissa, said that about 200 civil servants across the country were expelled from the State apparatus in the first six months of 2021 alone, as a result of 784 disciplinary proceedings. Addressing the central ceremony of the Anti-Corruption Week last week in Maputo, the Deputy Minister said that 97...