A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO UNFAIR DISMISSAL LAW IN BOTSWANA

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO UNFAIR DISMISSAL LAW IN BOTSWANA
Author: Oagile Bethuel Key Dingake
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2022-09-03
Genre: Law
ISBN:

This book discusses the law related to unfair dismissal in Botswana. It makes it clear that an employer is not free to dismiss an employee whenever they feel like doing it. The law requires that an employee may only be dismissed for a valid reason, and even then a fair procedure must be followed. It follows from the above that a dismissal would be unfair if there is no valid reason or fair procedure or both. The principle of ‘fairness’ is unique to labour law and does not necessarily apply to other areas of the law such as the law of contract. Misconduct is the most common reason for dismissal, but there are also other grounds such as poor performance at work, redundancy, incompatibility and incapacity, which attract their own requirements. This book, by a former leading judge of the Industrial Court of Botswana, is easily the most authoritative on the subject to date in the context of Botswana. It is a useful practical guide to employees, employers, trade unions, employers; organizations, HR practitioners and law students.

The State and Organised Labour in Botswana

The State and Organised Labour in Botswana
Author: Monageng Mogalakwe
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2019-05-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0429780532

First published in 1997, this volume departs from conventional analyses of Botswana’s political economy and focuses on the second phase of Botswana’s capitalist development from 1966-1990, arguing that even in a formally liberal democratic country, the imperatives of economic growth and development in a capitalist context give rise to the state’s close supervision and control of organised labour. Taking inspiration from Marx’s theories of history, Monageng Mogalakwe examines the capitalist form of the Botswana state and its relationships with the trade unions, labour law, industrial relations, class struggle and organised labour in a period characterised by direct state intervention in the economy and in industrial relations.

The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century

The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century
Author: Richard Bales
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2019-12-05
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108428835

Over the last fifty years in the United States, unions have been in deep decline, while income and wealth inequality have grown. In this timely work, editors Richard Bales and Charlotte Garden - with a roster of thirty-five leading labor scholars - analyze these trends and show how they are linked. Designed to appeal to those being introduced to the field as well as experts seeking new insights, this book demonstrates how federal labor law is failing today's workers and disempowering unions; how union jobs pay better than nonunion jobs and help to increase the wages of even nonunion workers; and how, when union jobs vanish, the wage premium also vanishes. At the same time, the book offers a range of solutions, from the radical, such as a complete overhaul of federal labor law, to the incremental, including reforms that could be undertaken by federal agencies on their own.