Pedro Filipe, who was speaking to Angola’s public television at the end of a meeting of this body that took place in Luanda, said that the members of the council were unanimous in recommending the adoption of the minimum salary model that resulted from negotiations between the government and the trade union centres.
“But here we have a perspective of evolution over two years, companies that already practice the seventy thousand kwanzas should have twelve months to adjust and others, without that capacity, should have two years to get there,” he explained.
The document containing the decision of the consultative body will now be sent to Angola’s president, João Lourenço, for approval and publication in the state gazette Diário da República.
According to Filipe, the representatives of the consultative body of the president, as the holder of executive power, were also informed that more than 45,000 civil servants already benefit from rent, installation and isolation allowances.
At this session, the council also assessed the degree of implementation of the Roadmap for the Implementation of the New Remuneration Architecture for the Public Administration (RINAR), namely the process to increase civil service salaries by 5%, which has been in force since last January.
Another component analysed, in the light of RINAR, was the pay supplement of an extra 30,000 kwanzas (€32), approved last April by the president, and which is already starting to be processed in the June salary, Pedro Filipe said.
“The measure that doubled the pay of university lecturers and researchers and adjusted the salaries of military doctors and nurses and health technicians from the military regime will also begin to be implemented this June,” said the secretary of state.
They also agreed on the “immediate” implementation of allowances for employees working in remote areas, for isolation (30%), installation (50%) and rent (30%).
The government and the unions reached an agreement at the end of May on the national minimum wage and civil service salary updates, which led to a planned third phase of a general strike being called off.
In the agreement reached, the parties undertook that the salary review for the entire civil service will take place over three years, with effect from January 2025, with an increase of 25%, with negotiations taking place on 30 September each year for subsequent increases.
With regard to updating the national minimum wage, they immediately decided on an increase to 70,000 kwanzas (€75), more than double the current 32,000 kwanzas (€35), which should rise to 100,000 kwanzas (€107), as the unions demanded, within two years of its first being set this year.
They also agreed on the “immediate” implementation of allowances for employees working in remote areas, for isolation (30%), installation (50%) and rent (30%).
An increase in the breastfeeding allowance by 300%, in the funeral allowance by 300% and in the family allowance by 150% are also part of the agreement reached between the unions and the government.
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