Botswana: And Now, Discrimination

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In some parts of the developed world, it is an offence to discriminate between employees, or prospective employees, on the grounds of their socio-biographical profiles. In other words, if a person could prove that their eligibility for employment or advancement was disadvantaged specifically by their gender, race, religion, and physical disability, sexual-orientation and perhaps age, the employing entity may be required to make some form of compensation.

Does Botswana's employment law recognise the different forms of socio-economic discrimination and do we have effective, accessible and enforceable options of redress in the event that we encounter discrimination in the workplace? I suspect the answer will be a debatable, muffled yes because in my estimation, a lot of our legislation was passed before there was so much diversity in the workforce, so many of the issues arising out of this new landscape are yet to be addressed, but I stand to be corrected.

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