Delegates to the Botswana Federation of Public Sector Unions (BOFEPUSU) special congress held in Palapye on Saturday have unanimously resolved to reject the three percent salary increase for 2016/17 announced by government. The resolution complicates Government's decision to pay the 3 per cent into salaries of public servants who do not belong to BOFEPUSU being management cadres, the non-unionised, the discipline forces and those belonging to other trade unions outside the federation. After government officials announced that they will go ahead and pay public servants the three per cent increase at the beginning of the 2016/17 financial year in April, the federation obtained a court order preventing the employer from effecting the increase on their members before the bargaining process is concluded. Briefing the delegates Deputy Secretary General Ketlhalefile Motshegwa said after the court order they were summoned to a meeting with Carter Morupisi - Permanent Secretary to the President (PSP), who told them that government payroll system cannot differentiate between the different set of employees. Morupisi, therefore, wanted to persuade BOFEPUSU leaders to allow government to effect the 3 % increase on all public servants, including their members contrary to the court order. Government has since issued a circular…