BMWU decries lax labour laws
Monday, July 07, 2014
In an interview with BusinessMonitor Malele said it has become a trend in Botswana for mine workers to lose their jobs easily and the law has not protected them.
“All mines in Botswana have a tendency of retrenching people at the last minute and always without prior warning. This is not a good thing. We have been expressing our concerns to them (employers) several times, but they simply turn a deaf ear, “ he said. He said that usually companies choose to notify the labour commissioner about their plans on retrenching employees without employees or unions’ knowledge. “Our laws here are not on our side as workers. It worries us because jobs are meant to empower people not to punish them and make them poor. “When people are cut from jobs, they have problems servicing their debts.
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