Quiet sabre-rattling in banking sector
Friday, February 06, 2015
Number crunching: Keabetswe says 2015/ 16 wage talks are set to proceed. PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Like the economy, bank workers live in a perpetual cycle.
Every summer, bank workers square up to their employers in a now familiar tussle over wage reviews. Ideally, both sides would want to finalise talks before the onset of the new financial year in April, but traditionally the talks drag far into the new financial year and necessitate backpay sometime in November.
It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...