IMF calls for reforms in civil service, parastatals
New allowances & benefits policy coming in JulyTrade unions fuming, vow to punish Masisi and BDP
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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.
Government’s seeming reluctance to pursue the much awaited Constitutional Review, will not deter Botswana Federation of Public Private and Parastatal Sector Unions (BOFEPUSU) and Botswana Federation of Trade Unions (BFTU) from embarking on consultation for the review, union leaders have hinted. BOFEPUSU Deputy Secretary General, Ketlhalefile Motshegwa, this week revealed to The Voice that they […]
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The Deputy Secretary General of Botswana Federation of Public, Private and Parastatal Workers Union (BOFEPUSU) Ketlhalefile Motshegwa said government intention to retrench workers is bad move.
Motshegwa said the pronouncement by Matsheka that 50% of government vacant posts will be scrapped off would result in a serious economic depression amidst higher unemployment level. He is worried that the country would be thrown deeper into economic depression adding that Botswana doesn’t have a large vibrant private sector that create jobs while government cannot.