{"id":1024264,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1024264/?format=json","text_counter":354,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Ruaraka, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. T.J. Kajwang’","speaker":{"id":2712,"legal_name":"Tom Joseph Kajwang'","slug":"kajwang-tom-joseph-francis"},"content":"The only thing I have found confounding in this discussion is why people should mix gratuity and pension. Those are different things. I am waiting to hear from Hon. Mwadime even as I have heard from other colleagues. At least, from my background understanding of law, gratuity is out of a contractual while pension is a social service. Those two things are different. If you have an employment and at the end you get a gratuity of so-much per cent, or that you will get this or that, that is your term of service. On the other hand, you get pension because it is a social benefit for having worked for the people. People must take cognisance of the service you have given to the public. It is a social benefit. I heard the Leader of the Majority Party say that if you take gratuity, then you should The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."}