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The Manual Workers Union has implored the Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MESD) to step in mediate, and reinstate Dr Malatsi Galani who is deemed to have been unfairly dismissed by Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST).
Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis assures mathadis (headloaders) that the Mathadi Act will not be abolished and asks for their support in plugging the loopholes in the Act. He also addresses the demand for Maratha reservation. Fadnavis orders an inquiry into an agreement that mentions payment of extortion money to a mathadi union. He promises to speak to the chief minister and CIDCO to ensure housing for mathadis near the APMC market. Fadnavis also discusses plans for the redevelopment of the APMC market and the empowerment of mathadi youth. | Mumbai news
As Botswana Federation of Public, Private and Parastatal Sector Unions (BOFEPUSU) readies for its weekend elective congress billed for Francistown at Adansonia Hotel this weekend, lobby lists of interested office bearers have already been bandied about.
The warm relations that President Mokgweetsi Masisi had promised public service unions when he occupied office may have broken down irreparably ahead of the 2023 elections, it seems.
The new law will impose a tax on each transaction on digital platforms to fund welfare scheme for gig workers.