The government is guaranteeing the payment of salaries based on the Single Salary Table (TSU) to around 400,000 state employees, corresponding to 98% of the total, this month and clarifies that levels 20 and 21 based on new salaries are not yet open for occupation.

"Currently two of the 21 levels [of the TSU], which are the higher levels, are not open to occupation at this stage of the framework by the different professionals in the Public Administration," said the Deputy Minister for State Administration and the Civil Service, Inocêncio Impissa.

Quoted by ClubofMozambique, Impissa said that these levels would be available for occupation after the end of the current framework phase.

The decision to "block" levels 20 and 21 for state officials and agents is a precautionary one, insofar as rational progression must be followed.

"These two levels are currently safeguarded precisely to allow a rational climb up the ladder," and those posts are reserved for professionals at the end of their careers, i.e. with 30 years' service, he explained.

In another development, he said that the Executive had made "arrangements" to accommodate the concerns of doctors, teachers, judges and "other associations", while maintaining salaries and allowances.

"However, for these classes that complained, a nominal amount was set, i.e. what they received when the percentage was applied at the time the old pay scale was implemented. This was the mutually agreed solution," he said.