Labour experts meet to interrogate laws
Oarabile Mosikare | Wednesday May 6, 2015 16:07
This will be a discussion point during a Labour Law Conference to be held at Grand Palm Hotel next week Monday and Tuesday.
The conference, organised by the South African company, Business Communicator, is expected to be attended by managing directors, human resource directors, heads of strategy, labour relations managers, labour law specialists and labour unions representatives amongst others.
Among the speakers will be attorney Sesupo Mosweu, Abner Chokwe, a legal services, labour law and relations specialist from South Africa, Ashley Bhika, also a South African industrial relations and labour law specialist and Lesego Pule, an employee relations manager at BotswanaPost. “The year 2005 marked a turnaround in Botswana as the Industrial Court opened its doors and the outcome resulted in numerous court trials and arguments at this court contributing to the refining of the labour/employment law principles. This paved the way for new discussions and debates surrounding labour law legislation and issues.
The existing labour laws are far reaching, as the present structures in legislation does not have the strength and capacity to enforce these laws and the current state of industrial relations/labour law in Botswana calls for a more strategic approach,” reads Business Communicator brochure.
Most importantly, it is claimed, this signals that it is time for the fundamental changes on labour legislation to be implemented.
“In finding solutions, the demands of the legislation, the reality of an extremely unequal society and the requirements for economic growth need to be married in a sensible way. This summit intended to stimulate debate and engagement is on labour market dynamics faced by all the stakeholders in the labour community. The summit will review interesting issues of current policy framework of Botswana, developments on labour union status and labour legislation, policies and regulations.”
Furthermore, this event would address discussions on effective management discipline and dismissal, grievances and disciplinary enquiries and dismissals for poor work performance versus dismissals for misconduct.
“The debate will further descend on South African versus Botswana legislation on labour law, facilitate mutual negotiations and employment agreements amongst stakeholders and this summit promises the audience exciting engagements with experts and well-known presenters on labour law,” says the Business Communicator.
The organisers say some of the benefits of attending the conference are:
* Assessing developments on labour union status and labour legislation, policies and regulations.
* Understand the power of mediation and alternative dispute resolution strategies
* The role of Botswana Industrial Court and other relevant institutions on labour law
* Effective methods on resolving management discipline and dismissal, grievances and
disciplinary hearings
* Create your own performance management legal toolkit
* Discover best practices for communication before, during and after strikes
* Reviewing the Botswana’s industrial relations framework supports or hindrances of economic growth
* Learn new strategies, realities and the way forward for the new collective bargaining
* Insights on the present and future Botswana labour relations landscape
* Benchmarking on South Africa versus Botswana legislation.