{"id":26334,"date":"2023-04-29T13:15:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T13:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/union-petitions-lucara-board"},"modified":"2023-04-29T13:21:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T13:21:34","slug":"union-petitions-lucara-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/union-petitions-lucara-board","title":{"rendered":"Union Petitions Lucara Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. <\/strong><\/span><b>Botswana Mining Workers Union (BMWU) has decided to petition the Chairman of the Board of Lucara Botswana, Paul Conibear, for a series of serious unresolved longstanding concerns.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Lucara Botswana is the 100 percent owner and mineral licence holder of Karowe Mine operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe petition is in part attributable to serious derogation from codes of practice and breach of mandatory legal and ethical frameworks,\u201d reads the petitions that is dated 22 April 2023 and was submitted last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><b>Baseless grounds<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It accuses the Managing Director of Lucara Botswana, Nassim Lahri, of ill-treating workers and of being in the habit of unlawful and wrongful termination of employees\u2019 contracts on baseless grounds and without a hearing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe company has decided to settle all the above cases out of court out of fear of being embarrassed by the law,\u201d says BMWU in the petition.<\/p>\n<p>Other issues raised in the petition are retrenchments which the union says violate labour laws and outsourcing of core security functions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe move to export jobs to South Africa outright defeats the purpose of investment strategic plans on the economic development of local communities,\u201d says the petition. \u201cWe demand that this decision be reviewed and withdrawn forthwith.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Disciplinary code <\/b><\/p>\n<p>The union also raises concerns about delays in addressing issues at union and management level, security reporting lines, staff complement shortages, conditions of service, and weak supply chain monitoring and welfare of business partners.<\/p>\n<p>However, defending itself in court in a recent case of dismissal of employees, Lucara stated: \u201cThe termination of the employees\u2019 contracts of employment was not carried out in terms of the company\u2019s disciplinary code and procedure but in terms of the employment contracts which supersedes the disciplinary code and procedure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company argued that the case was not a proper one for reinstatement because the termination of the employees\u2019 contracts was fair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe employees occupy sensitive positions in the security department and the roles require utmost trust and confidence between the employers and the employees,\u201d Lucara said.<\/p>\n<p>The Board of Lucara Botswana is yet to respond to the petition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\">Botswana<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. Botswana Mining Workers Union (BMWU) has decided to petition the Chairman of the Board of Lucara Botswana, Paul Conibear, for a series of serious unresolved longstanding concerns. Lucara Botswana is the 100 percent owner and mineral licence holder of Karowe Mine operations. \u201cThe petition is in part attributable to serious derogation from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":26333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[233,237,234],"class_list":["post-26334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-botswana","tag-botswana"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Union Petitions Lucara Board - Botswana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Botswana Mining Workers Union (BMWU) has decided to petition the Chairman of the Board of Lucara Botswana, Paul Conib ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/union-petitions-lucara-board\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Union Petitions Lucara Board\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Botswana Mining Workers Union (BMWU) has decided to petition the Chairman of the Board of Lucara Botswana, Paul Conib ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/union-petitions-lucara-board\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Botswana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-04-29T13:15:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-04-29T13:21:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1682757902.63.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1170\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/union-petitions-lucara-board#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/union-petitions-lucara-board\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Union Petitions Lucara Board\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-04-29T13:15:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-04-29T13:21:34+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/union-petitions-lucara-board\"},\"wordCount\":356,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/union-petitions-lucara-board#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1682757902.63.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Botswana\",\"Botswana\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/union-petitions-lucara-board#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/union-petitions-lucara-board\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/union-petitions-lucara-board\",\"name\":\"Union Petitions Lucara Board - 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