Meusalario.org/Mocambique
In Mozambique there are a website and organisation with the
name Meusalario.org/Mocambique
The website aspires to be an online up to date library
on labour market essentials. At the same time there
are offline actions like - salary data collection
throughout the country by young economists who
interview workers in both the formal and informal
sector. There are debates in the country with workers
and employers about the labour law and how to put
in into practice. There are TV and Radio shows. The
website attracts 130,000 visitors per year (2012),
more than any library in Mozambique.
Meusalario.org/Mocambique
Meusalario is a WageIndicator website. The labour market
essentials in the site are
• All about real wages – so what do the nurse and truck driver really earn?
• All about minimum wages
• All about public sector wages
• All about salaries of presidents, soccer players famous actors
Salaries
Labour Law
• All about labour law (last years, this year, maybe next year)
• All about your own collective agreement
• All about how to get what you should lawfully get
• How to improve your education
• Where to find a job
• How to do an interview
• How to improve life with the help of the Mobile Judge
Carrière
Meusalario.org/Mocambique
There are WageIndicator websites and organisations in 70 countries, more than
20 in Africa. All information is internationally comparable: Wages, Law,
Collective Agreements, etc.
Top Universities - Trade Unions, Employers’ Organisations - Newspapers,
Magazines
Meusalario.org/Mocambique
What are my rights? I have no idea.
The Meusalario Team in 2010/2011 organized
debates all over the country.
These discussions with employers, workers,
labour inspectors made one thing clear:
•
There is not much knowledge about law,
wages and minimum wages.
•
Workers don’t know, employers don’t know,
even labour inspectors don’t know.
Meusalario.org/Mocambique
Let us explain
The first national effect of these debates
Daily Radio quiz about labour law. For example: what is
the minimum wage in the fishing industry? Can you fire a
pregnant woman? Etc.
Debates about minimum wages on television.
Meusalario.org/Mocambique
Mobile Judge in action – 3 examples
August 2012 – Quelimane, central Mozambique. 237 workers at the private
insurance company OMEGA turned to the Mobile Judge. They had not received
their pay since 2009 and their employer did not seem to pay attention whatsoever
to their plight. Together with the labour inspector he moved in and after a month of
negotiating the workers finally got paid.
September 2012 - Maputo, southern Mozambique. Workers at ACSG get their
contracts after the intervention of the Mobile Judge. 150 young people worked for
two months without employment contract and without receiving their salaries. The
intervention of the Mobile Judge ended the suffering of these 150 young people
and their families.
November 2012 - Maputo, southern Mozambique. Mozambican workers in the
tourism sector report to the Mobile Judge. They complain about lack of payment
of salaries and racism from South African employers in the district of Matutuine.
The Mobile Judge raised the issues in their program and later the Minister of
Labour visited the sites. Racist employers were then expelled from the country.
Meusalario.org/Mocambique
Nice to Know and then What? The Mobile Judge acts!
Time for action,
in a country where people don’t get paid on time, sometimes
work 96 hours per week, or only get paid half of the legal
minimum wage
The Mobile Judge
Sergio Banze - In 5 months time 735 people involved, half of
them women.
Results
15 cases solved real time during a live TV-show, Miramar
Balanco Geral, prime time 11am 13pm - benefiting many
people
Meusalario.org/Mocambique
Links
Equipe
Projectleader meusalario - Egidio Vaz Raposo
Mobile Judge - Sergio Banze
E-mail
[email protected], [email protected]
Links
http://www.meusalario.org/mocambique/main/carreira-em-mocambique/melhore-tua-vida-com-ojuiz-movel/conquistas-de-juiz-movel/as-conquistas-do-juiz-aos-quatro-meses-nov-4-2012
http://www.meusalario.org/mocambique/main/carreira-em-mocambique/melhore-tua-vida-com-ojuiz-movel