Manual Workers Appeal Industrial Court Judgement

The Industrial Court dismissed the urgency of the matter in which the Union was challenging the decision by Botswana Unified Revenue Services (BURS) to withdraw its recognition as a bargaining party at the workplace.

NALCGPWU had in December 2016, approached the Industrial Court on certificate of urgency seeking inter alia to review and set aside the respondent’s decision to implement its decision to withdraw the recognition of the union communicated by an internal memorandum dated November 23, 2016; to have the purported cancellation of the Union’s recognition agreement with the employer invalid.