DIS agents demand backpays, say delay is unlawful

Their main contention is that the employer had failed to pay them salary back pays despite the government having issued Directives and Savingrams to that effect. The employees had taken the Directorate of Public Service Management (DPSM), DIS, and Attorney General to court seeking salary back pays effective from April 2008. Their main contention is that the employer had failed to pay them salary back pays despite the government having issued Directives and Savingrams to that effect.

The impatience of the employees follows a 2024 order by Justice Zein Kebonang of Gaborone High Court, he said the decision to not pay the officers backpays was unlawful. “The decision to not pay the officers back pays is unlawful in so far as the decision to pay is not back-dated to 2001 when Directive No.10 of 2001 came into force,” he said.