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    "id": 1104229,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1104229/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Keter",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13166,
        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
        "slug": "david-ole-sankok"
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I beg to move that the Employment (Amendment) Bill 2019 be now read a Second Time. The Bill went through the First Reading on 26th February 2020 and was thereafter committed to the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare pursuant to Standing Order No.127. In summary, the Bill seeks to amend Section 9 of the Employment Act 2011 in order to reduce the cost incurred by the youth while job seeking. Many of the unemployed Kenyans consist of persons below the age of 35 and mostly first-time job seekers are unable to afford clearance certificates required by employers for purposes of employment. To that end, the Bill provides that employers may only request for any clearance for compliance certificates only upon granting an offer of employment. The employer is granted reprieve if it is ascertained that the employee cannot provide the compliance or clearance certificates. If the employee does not satisfy the mandatory requirement on ethics and in compliance to that end, the employer may withdraw the offer of employment."
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