Gov't offers 3%, braces for employee backlash

Negotiations for civil servants salary adjustments are underway in Lobatse and government’s proposal is to award 3.5 percent salary increase to C&D scale and six percent for A&B scale for financial year 2019/2020.

For the year 2020 /2021, the employer has also proposed the same figures. 

However, unions through Botswana Public Employees Union, Botswana Nurses Union and Botswana Federation of Public Parastatals Private Sector Unions (BOFEPUSU) affiliated unions have long submitted their own proposal to the government. They want nine to 10% for C&D bands and 13% for the A scale. 

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