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Limkokwing to pay former employees or face the hammer

Limkokwing Campus
Limkokwing Campus

The Limkokwing University Botswana Campus has been ordered to pay its former employees salary arrears running over P1m or face the hammer.

The institution, which escaped a sale in execution last year for allegedly failing to pay salary arrears to its former employees, recently lost its appeal at the Court of Appeal hence the new twist of events.

The university has been in a legal battle with 42 of its former employees for failure to pay salary arrears and last year everything came to a stand still when its properties were to be auctioned following a default judgment award issued against it by the Labour Office.

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