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    "content": "National Union of Teachers (KNUT) which has been brought to my attention as requiring immediate intervention. Hon. Members, I wish to inform the House that on 8th September 2020, I received a letter from the Leader of the Majority Party seeking my guidance on a matter that had been brought to his attention by the Secretary and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the TSC. In the letter dated 4th September 2020, the CEO of the TSC submitted the commission’s concerns on the manner in which KNUT was approaching an ongoing labour-related issue in view of existing redress mechanisms. Hon. Members, the reading and perusal of the documents that were attached to the letter of the Leader of the Majority Party as well as information available to me from the letter of the TSC to the Clerk of the National Assembly of 19th August, 2020 reveal as follows: (i) On 11th August 2020, the Departmental Committee, in furtherance to the authority of parliamentary committees under Article 125 (1) of the Constitution, held a meeting attended by the leadership of the TSC as well as senior officials of both the KNUT and the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET). In that meeting, rafts of proposals were made as way forward on the ongoing impasse between TSC and KNUT; (ii) Following the meeting, the KNUT strangely wrote to the TSC urging the commission to implement a raft of resolutions which KNUT claimed to have arisen from the aforementioned meeting. The resolutions titled “Way forward”, which the KNUT asked the TSC to adhere to, were as follows – (a) That the Code of Regulations for Teachers is a valid document used to manage teachers. The Code of Regulations does not capture Career Progression Guidelines. (b) That the Committee of Education will spearhead the urgent and immediate review of the Code of Regulations for Teachers in readiness for the next CBA negotiations to avoid disputes and standoffs in future. All parties shall give their submissions via a public participation process. (c) That all teachers to be paid their third and fourth CBA benefits notwithstanding union affiliations with immediate effect as per the law. (d) That TSC immediately reverts to the Union Membership Register as it was in June 2019 and resume strict deductions of union dues to return normalcy to KNUT operations. (e) That the Cabinet Secretary for Labour should urgently gazette agency fee in favour of KNUT to endure equal treatment of unions in the teaching service. (f) That parties to immediately cease hostilities, compromise all matters in court and record consents of withdrawals and move out of courts and reset their relations to 2016. (f) That TSC to develop Teacher Professional Development (TPD) guidelines and submit to the National Assembly for approval in compliance with the Statutory Instruments Act of 2013. (g) In response, the Teachers Service Commission wrote to the Clerk of the National Assembly and later to the Leader of the Majority Party seeking guidance on the unusual sequence of events and voicing its reservations about its active participation in Parliament on a matter which is active in court. Hon. Members, the occurrence of these events raises the following three key issues whose guidance I have been called upon to offer- (a) How should Members who represent special interest relate with the said interest"
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