No help for aggrieved StanChart sales agents

On Friday, Botswana Bank Employees Union (BOBEU) chairman Jayson Chakalisa told The Monitor they cannot help the affected workers simply because they are not union members. According to Chakalisa, BOBEU's union membership is drawn from permanent employees, and not the banks' contracted staff.

Standard Chartered Bank's new strategy of motivating its contracted sales agents and some staff members by slashing their monthly commission by half, has been criticised by the affected workers who say it is cruel. They have told The Monitor that from the sales target of five credit cards, one gets P500 as commission. Failure to make P500 from the credit card sales, a sales agent who makes P13,000 from other sales, is punished by having their salary slashed by half.