Mozambique: Government Says It Cannot Pay End of Year Bonus

Maputo — Mozambican Prime Minister Benvinda Levi announced on Wednesday that the government is unable to pay the traditional new year bonus for 2025 to workers in the public administration.

The bonus is the equivalent of an extra month’s payment of the basic wage, and so it is colloquially known as “the 13th month’.

Although public sector workers tend to treat the bonus as a right, it is, in reality, more of a tradition, and is not included in workers’ contracts.

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