Staff Reporter LUKE Sacco, General Manager of Mercure Hotel, formerly known as Safari Hotel, has come under fire after being accused of sexual harassment by the hotel’s former and current employees, as well as systematically replacing Namibians in supervisory and managerial positions with foreigners. The hotel manager, according to workers, would continuously state that Namibians...
Despite 33 years of independence, the Namibia Sport Commission (NSC) has failed to implement an explicit policy on sexual harassment in sport. Speaking to Desert Radio this week, former NSC sport development officer Salome Iiyambo said the NSC has no specific policies dealing with sexual harassment at the NSC level or at national umbrella sport...
The parliamentary standing committee on foreign affairs, defence and security has found that the Namibian government has not implemented the instruments of rectification required for the 2018 border treaty with Botswana, with the unmarked border leading to the harassment, arrest and shootings of Namibians. However, Botswana has seemingly started with the implementation of the treaty,...
Sexual harassment at the workplace is a topic that continues to draw divergent views on what it exactly constitutes. The Conversation’ host John-Collin Namene interrogate this issue with the help of a panel of invited guests. The post Sexual Harassment at the work place appeared first on The Namibian. Source link
Staff Reporter THE Namibia Agriculture Union (NAU) has called upon its members to collaborate with the Population and Housing Census enumerators and also condemned the harassment of enumerators by farmers. Photo for illustrative purposes. This comes after several videos made the rounds online, showing the harassment of enumerators by some farmers. Tanja Daahl, the spokesperson...
Census enumerators have allegedly become the victims of physical attacks and harassment while collecting data. Namibia Statistics Agency enumerator Thiggipo Haihambo (33) says he was attacked by a group of five men at Oshakati West in the Oshana region on Wednesday evening. “They approached me and were fighting to get hold of my census bag,...
Fedden Mainga In my preceding opinion piece (volume 27), I addressed the constitutional violations of the practical joke involving some employees at Rundu service station who were beaten for loans. In the employment context, this ‘joke’ brought to the fore some worrisome realities of the state of labour laws because the Labour Act 11 of...
The Acting Executive Director of the Ministry of Labour, Industrial Relations, and Employment Creation,Otniel Podewiltz, says violence and harassment at workplaces are widespread phenomena around the world. However, Podewiltz says this issue in Namibia is complex due to persistent social inequalities and power imbalances. Podewiltz said this during a two-day meeting on variation and Sensitization...
