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Under the new regime for foreign labour, micro-enterprises may hire foreigners to fill up to 15 percent of their workforce.
The Mozambican Ministry of Labour has introduced new regulations and quotas regarding hiring foreign labour, in line with the size of Mozambican companies.
According to Ministry spokesperson, Balthazar Egídio, speaking to reporters on Monday, in Maputo, on the sidelines of an extraordinary plenary session of the Labour Consultative Commission (CCT), among the innovations are a new classification of companies which, for the first time include micro-companies in the labour regime. The CCT is a tripartite body that negotiates labour issues between the government, the trade unions, and the employers’ associations.
Egidio said that under the new regime for foreign labour, micro-enterprises may hire foreigners to fill up to 15 per cent of their workforce. Small companies can hire foreign workers for 10 per cent of their labour force, while medium companies may hire eight per cent, and large companies may hire up to five per cent. This normative instrument adjusts the new labour law since these matters still need to be regulated”.
The previous labour law, dating from 2007, set the quota of foreign workers for small, medium, and large companies at ten, eight, and five per cent respectively, and had ignored micro-enterprises entirely.
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For his part, the chairperson of the labour department at the Confederation of Economic Associations (CTA), Paulino Cossa, told the Monday meeting that the regulations are bringing changes aimed at regulating the obligations of workers and employers.
