Botswana's Employment and Labour Relations Act, 2025 brings sweeping reforms to employment law, fundamentally reshaping how businesses classify workers, structure contracts, and manage workplace relationships. From stricter controls on fixed-term arrangements to enhanced protections against discrimination and harassment, employers face significant compliance obligations across recruitment, leave administration, disciplinary procedures, and collective bargaining.

Botswana, formerly a British protectorate, became independent in 1966. It is a landlocked country in southern Africa, bordered by Zimbabwe to the northeast, South Africa to the south-east, and Namibia to the west.