Sacked civil servants lose big

6 November, 2009 in Botswana

source: The Botswana Gazette
Written by EDITOR
Tuesday, 03 November 2009 12:52

• Their pensions to be reduced and taxed
• Retirement at 45 to be re-introduced in new Public Service Act

Civil servants who were recently forcibly retired from their government jobs stand to lose thousands of Pula because they were dismissed under a provision of the old law that allows the government to retire its employees at age 45.

The last Parliament passed a new Public Service Act that does not contain this provision; but it has not yet come into force. It is understood that the government intends to amend the new Act to bring back retirement at 45 without consulting public service trade unions.

During the past couple of weeks 25 people have been forcibly retired from three government departments – 15 from the Department of Building and Engineering Services, four from the Department of Immigration and six from the Central Transport Organisation; most were middle managers. The Gazette is reliably informed that a senior Immigration official fainted upon receiving the [continue reading]