Lesotho: Court Orders Govt to Pay PSs' Gratuities

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Lesotho: Court Orders Govt to Pay PSs' Gratuities

[Lesotho Times] The government must by 5 August 2020 pay former principal secretaries whose gratuities it had withheld to settle their government-guaranteed personal loans which they had not finished servicing by the time they left in 2017.

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