Unionised Grand Palm workers cry foul

The Grand Palm Hotel Casino and Convention Resort effected a salary increase of non-bargaining employees by six percent while the trade union representing The Grand Palm workers, the Botswana Hotel, Travel and Tourism Workers Union, is locked in negotiations with management. The negotiations are said to have commenced on January 27, 2016.

Some employees, who spoke to Mmegi on condition of anonymity, said the decision by management to increase the salaries of the non-bargaining workers prejudice the ongoing negotiations. They complain that the management was playing unfair tactics as they delayed salary negotiations, which were supposed to commence in November 2015. They say the employer’s behaviour showed that he disregarded the importance of bargaining.