The two worlds of civil service and private sector
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Unlike the civil service, life for workers in the private sector is not easy. It is a dog eat dog affair and survival of the fittest in the private sector where unionisation is a cumbersome process often accompanied by suspicions with possible dismissal by employer looming large.
Terrifying, are the conditions under which some of the workers find themselves in the private sector while in the civil service an officer can afford to turn back a client with the flimsiest of excuses like the stamp has run out of ink or copies of forms have been exhausted. Unlike the civil service, there is no bargaining council in the private sector.
“Desperate people do desperate things”– Michael BrooksHowever, this desperate pursuit of employment comes with its own negative outcomes. Therefore, Batswana must guard against becoming easy targets for human traffickers, labour exploiters and other transnational criminal networks that prey on vulnerable job seekers.Numbers don’t lie. The recent revelation by the Botswana Police Service that 22 Batswana have been reported missing after...