Courts' workers threaten strike

AoJ employees say this industrial action is likely to affect government's public service reforms such as Performance Based Reward System (PBRS) and Judicial Case Management (JCM) if their demands are not addressed.

Employees of the AoJ blame their woes on the assistant director for human resources, Mary Kenyaditswe Mabutho, deployed from the Ministry of Local Government (MoLG).  The employees have given the department a month's notice to meet their demands or else they will down the tools. The AoJ employees met on July 24 to discuss the issue of their salary cuts which started in June 2008. That problem has not yet been rectified.  The salary cuts also affected the magistrates. The magistrates petitioned their employer about this anomaly.