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    "id": 1243258,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I continue moving the Employment Amendment Bill (Senate Bills No.11 of 2022) on the right to disconnect. Yesterday, in the opening remarks, I said that this Bill generated a lot of issues across the country where people were saying that it would promote kupiga sherehe because your employer will not call you. In the onset of COVID-19 and lock down, we started working remotely. There was a lot of challenges when it comes to how you regulate working hours. There is change in the traditional environment. When you look under Clause 27 of this Bill is on hours of work. As per the standard practice, hours of work in Kenya are between 8.00 a.m. and 5.00 p.m. in the evening. The Employment (Amendment) Bill (Senate Bills No11 of 22) is in recognition of the ever-changing work environment where many people are working from home. There is a lot of misinformation about this Bill. Some have claimed that the Bill proposes that employers should not call employees after work. How will you regulate on the hours and how do you ensure that somebody who is at home is working? There is a standard of engagement in this Bill of the right to disconnect. Naturally, you will be paid overtime. This Bill of right to disconnect is to protect the workers from burn out. There are notorious employers who give you an assignment at around 4.45 p.m. and say the report should be ready by 8.00 a.m. the next day in the first briefing meeting. We are becoming a threat to the right to privacy and family which is very important. Many people have been given an opportunity to the right to disconnect. Developed countries such as France passed the law in 2016. In Belgium where we have 65,000 people in the public sector passed the law in January."
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