Bill must protect collective bargaining and democracy

The bill seeks to keep the public service up to speed with the current developments in the area of public service while at the same time streamlining all the acts that relate to public service.

Not long ago, government ratified International Labour Organisation conventions that accord public service employees the right to form and organise unions. The government of Botswana has since domesticated these conventions in Botswana law. First it was the employee organisations that were transformed into unions.