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    "id": 1223346,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1223346/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Emuhaya, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Omboko Milemba",
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    "content": "Lastly, Hon. Temporary Speaker, the SRC is trying to make sure that the pensions of all workers are reduced. Having said all that, I want to commend this Committee for having annulled all the SRC Regulations in totality. I want them to follow up and deal with the issue of reducing the salaries of ECDE teachers. The ECDE teachers have no voice. Nobody is speaking for them. I know this Parliament will speak for the ECDE teachers of Kenya. Their salary has been reduced from Ksh18,000 to below Ksh15,000 which is the minimum wage required by the International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention No. 98. It is high time that we have SRC under control. We need to regulate it because they are doing all these without any public participation and consultation. In all these, they have always had their way out. I want to support the Report and ask that this Committee continues to deal with the many other circulars that have been given by the SRC. This is including the one on ECDE teachers that Homa Bay County has already started applying. It is the first one to have reduced the salaries of those particular teachers. In law, a salary that somebody is enjoying cannot be reduced. If it were to be reduced, it is required in law under the Labour Institutions Act that a conversation ensues. In such cases, there must be a big thing that has happened, what we call"
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