WIRE — Botswanas most consequential labour statute since Independence takes effect on 1 September, and it lands in an economy that has stopped creating jobs. Business Botswana calls it "heavily anti-business" and warns that operationalising it could be "catastrophic". The Manual Workers Union is broadly happy with the Act but shocked at how little has been done

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