PHK accuses private sector of exploiting worker

Speaking at the Botswana Confederation of Commerce, Industry and Manpower (BOCCIM) annual dinner held in Gaborone, Kedikilwe said some businesses maliciously misinterpret minimum wage by paying it to employees who have served for many years under the pretext that government prescribed it. Kedikilwe said government only prescribes the minimum below which payment would be illegal.

"But government does not prescribe a maximum," he said, further noting that employers are at liberty to pay their employees any amount above the minimum.