It states, "An employer may deduct any amounts owed to him by an employee from the latter's
severance pay."
He was responding to the question asked by Gaborone North MP, Mr Haskins Nkaigwa, who had asked if there were any plans by government to recognise the Ipelegeng Programme as a job employing 6-12 months contract so that they could benefit from
severance pay and gratuity.
"They gavelittlewarning and almost no
severance pay to thevast majorityof their store employees, leaving them out in the cold with no paychecks and no lead time to prepare, while executives took massive million dollar bonus checks home, a golden parachute,"Pousaid.
'Workers protested and demanded that the company increase their
severance pay. They've only just started protesting and now they have been fired from their jobs."
Article No 139 of Federal Law No 8 of 1980 states that a work shall forfeit all entitlement to
severance pay in any of these two cases:
An employee who has completed 1 or more years of continuous service is entitled to
severance payHowever in 2017/18 TfL paid 224 people on a base salary of less than [pounds sterling]100,000 a one-off six-figure payment, taking into account
severance pay.
They pointed out the new franchisees, most of whom will be dismissed factory workers, have no choice but to spend their
severance pay on the extra costs.
The VER plan will offer a
severance pay equivalent to one month's salary for each completed year of service.
He is eligible for six months of
severance pay if commissioners vote to end his employment without cause.
The bank raised
severance pay packages for a second time after it asked about 100 equity employees in Tokyo to leave the firm in January.