‘Broke’ AB To Increase Employee Salaries

Air Botswana plane at Sir Seretse Khama International Airport PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Air Botswana plane at Sir Seretse Khama International Airport PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

Financially-troubled Air Botswana (AB) will have to dig deep into its already depleted pockets to increase its employees’ low wages. The troubled national air carrier has been in a back and forth legal battle with its employees who complained about low wages as compared to their counterparts in the other parastatal organisations.

According to the aggrieved employees, there has been a 27% salary gap as compared to other parastatals and they demanded a change.

Following talks between management and the employees’ union, an agreement was reached on January 8, 2016 to close the salary structure gap of the airline before back tracking on the agreement. This resulted in the employees taking legal steps to force the airline to honour the agreement and recently the Court of Appeal (CoA) resolved the matter.

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