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Beira Municipal Council of Mozambique said that it would pay all its staff the end-of-year bonus known as the 13th-month salary although the central government said that it did not have the funds to pay this bonus to all members of the public administration.
Beira, is the only municipality in the country run by the opposition Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM). The province has been out of line with public sector wages before.
The bonus is equivalent to an extra month’s payment of the basic wage and there is no legal obligation on the government to pay its employees this bonus. But the payment has become a tradition. A similar promise was made last week by Maputo Municipal Council.
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The main reason given by the central government for not paying the “13th month” is the budgetary impact of implementing the new “Unified Wage Table” (TSU) for the public sector.
