11 April 2008
Maputo — The Mozambican Labour Ministry has imposed a heavy fine on a computer company, MOZ IT Ltd., that had been illegally employed by the National Social Security Institute (INSS) to digitalise its records.
In late February, Labour Minister Helena Taipo, on a visit to the INSS, discovered that 150 MOZ IT staff were involved in computerizing the INSS data, but the contract between the INSS and MOZ INT had not been approved by the Administrative Tribunal, the body that oversees the legality of public expenditure, and it turned out that the company did not have a valid licence for the services it was providing.
So the General Inspectorate of Labour inspected further, and has now, according to a Labour Ministry press release, imposed a fine of 1.14 million meticais (about 47,000 US dollars) on MOZ IT.
This is the sum of separate fines for failing to sign written work contracts with its employees, for not registering its workers with the INSS (even though it was working at the heart of the INSS), for failing to pay wages on time (last week the workers claimed they were owed two months back wages), and for failing to provide a list of its workers and the hours they are supposed to work.
MOZ IT was notified of the fine on 4 April, and was given 14 days to set its house in order, and correct all the irregularities discovered by the inspectors.
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