CoA to rule on retrenchment benefits

With many companies already embarking on retrenchment exercises to survive the impact of COVID19 pandemic, many employees are likely to be robbed of their benefits as has been the case in the past.
The Court of Appeal is expected to make yet another ruling early next month to buttress the fact that employees facing retrenchment are entitled to both Severance Pay and Retrenchment Pay/Compensation.
This is in a matter in which Jacobus Fourie is demanding Retrenchment Pay from his former employer Concor Botswana Contractors after he was retrenched in 2018.
The Industrial Court ruled in his fav...