Nurses get 14% salary increase

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The Botswana Nurses Union (BONU) is set to announce a whopping 14 percent increase for nurses and an additional 15 percent for midwives by Friday.

This comes after President Ian Khama and his cabinet gave the thumbs up to a long dragging proposal by the union to have nurses paid for non-nursing duties, The Monitor is reliably informed.

Only a directive and savinggram announcing government commitment is currently causing the hold up, but insiders say negotiations between the two parties have been peacefully concluded, and that the savinggram and directive are expected as early as this week.

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