The Mozambican Government makes annual changes to the national minimum salaries applicable to groups of salaried employees whose employment conditions justify a guarantee of their protection. The Government has approved the new national minimum salaries, which enter into force immediately and have retroactive effect as from 1 April 2015. These new national minimum salaries were published in Boletim da Républica (the Mozambican official Gazette), number 40, Series I on Wednesday, 20 March 2015.