BOSETU, DPSM finally reach settlement

BOSETU members PIC: KEOAGILE BONANG
BOSETU members PIC: KEOAGILE BONANG

The Botswana Sectors of Educators Trade Union (BOSETU) and the Directorate of Public Service Management (DPSM) finally reached a settlement, on Monday, in a case in which the employer was challenged for denying scare skills allowance to Business Studies and Accounting teachers.

According to a letter updating members from BOSETU secretary general, Tabokani Rari, the meeting between the two parties took place this week as ordered by the court. The Lobatse Judge, Godfrey Nthomiwa had given both parties time to engage on terms and return to court on August 7, 2017.

The case was about what the teacher union terms discrimination against their members whom they believe deserve to be paid scarce skills given that the many Business Studies and Accounting teachers employed in junior and secondary school are foreign nationals. 

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