IMF calls for reforms in civil service, parastatals
New allowances & benefits policy coming in JulyTrade unions fuming, vow to punish Masisi and BDP
BAKANG TIRO
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Civil servants and parastatals employees are facing a rude awakening brought by huge cuts in allowances, as government attempts to trim an unaffordably high wage bill through a new allowances and benefits policy recommended by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF), The Patriot on Sunday has learnt.
The IMF which has for a long time called government to reduce the wage bill again reiterated its stance on civil service reform must be priority when it concluded 2021 Article IV mission to Botswana last week. IMF, a Bretton Woods Institution, has recommended to government that fiscal reforms are needed and they include the reform of the civil service as well as rationalization of parastatals.
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The Botswana Sectors of Educators trade Union (BOSETU) notes that the 2021/2022 budget proposals were made under very challenging times due to the COVID 19 pandemic. As a trade union we note further, that Botswana economy and the entire world was and still is adjusting and responding to the biggest shock of this century, which is COVID-19. We have no doubt as a trade union that, the pandemic has had many socio – economic impacts that include low economic to negative growth of most sectors of the economy, increased rates of unemployment especially for the youth, poverty and balance of payment decline.
We note further that it is on record that Botswana’s economy has declined by almost 25 percent in period of March to June 2020, which period covers the longest national lockdown in April 2020. We make this commentary on the education sector budget well aware that the education sector was not spared in terms of the impact, as budgets had to be readjusted to accommodate the COVID 19 r