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Mozambique – Government to stop companies using recruitment firms to side-step foreign worker quotas

19 December 2014

The government of Mozambique is ramping up its efforts to stop companies from using recruitment firms to side-step quotas on foreign workers. As a result, employers must submit their own work permit applications and can no longer use recruitment firms to do so on their behalf, reports totallyexpat.com

Mozambique set quotas dictating the maximum number of foreign employees that companies are permitted to hire as a percentage of a company’s overall workforce. Recruiting workers above the set amount – or recruiting “out of quota” – is a complicated process and approval is not guaranteed.

Some companies in Mozambique, however, have exceeded their quota by using recruitment firms to file their work permits for them. The government is now working to end that practice.

In recent months, the country has more strictly enforced a rule that prevents recruitment firms from filing work permit applications on behalf of companies. Provincial Labour Directorates were ordered in September 2014 to stop accepting work permit applications from recruiters, who are now permitted only to submit applications for their own employees.