Businesses plead for phased minimum wage increase

At a meeting that grew tense in parts on Thursday in Gaborone, Business Botswana members pushed back against plans for a higher minimum wage, suggesting instead that increases of between five and ten percent per annum be made to eventually reach the P4,000 desired by government.

The meeting, which was packed to capacity and featured the Labour and Home Affairs minister,(Ret) Major General Pius Mokgware, is the highest-level engagement held so far on the new administration’s plans for a higher minimum wage.