Collective Bargaining Addresses Imbalance � BOFEPUSU Lawyers

This is in response to a case in which the government and Botswana Public Employees Union (BOPEU) are challenging a High Court judgement declaring that the Public Service Bargaining Council (PSBC) binds all public servants inclusive of those whose unions would not have been admitted in the PSBC.

In the appeal, the government is challenging High Court judge Tshepo Motswagole’s judgement that the PSBC is an industrial council, hence its scope and decision affects and binds all public servants inclusive of those whose unions would have not have been admitted in the PSBC. Motswagole had also in his judgement declared that the three percent and the four percent salary adjustments that were being granted exclusively to those public servants whose unions were not in the PSBC was unlawful as adjustment of conditions of service for public servants was purely a preserve of the PSBC.