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    "id": 1243299,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "superhighway and a creative economy, where young people will work. This should be in place in the Public Service because people should also be creative. When you look at the Public Service Charter, it talks about the Presidential Awards being done digitally. Our Public Service is yet to adapt to the changes of working remotely. That is why I was looking at the annual report for the financial years. This relates to the Public Service Commission. Madam Temporary Speaker, I have read through it. Unfortunately, they are yet to embrace remote working. The biggest employer is the Government. We must have a way of ensuring that people can work from home in order to ensure we provide services. It is important that when it comes to working from home, the Public Service Commission should change its ways to accommodate that. For the benefit of Kenyans and colleagues who are following, “out of work” means hours other than the hours of work agreed upon between an employer and employee in the contract of employment. Madam Temporary Speaker, you might have a night shift, but the Employment Act talks of between 8.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. For example, maybe the contract of the secretariat in your office stipulates that they should work from 9.00 a.m. to 7.00 p.m. That is what I meant by the definition. If your driver works between 7.00 a.m. and 9.00 p.m. and that is agreed, that is what I meant by out of working hours. Our deepest condolences to you, Madam Temporary Speaker. We were informed that you lost your driver. Our prayers and thoughts are with the family of your driver and we will keep praying for you. “The right to disconnect” means that an employee is entitled not to be contacted by the employer during out of working hours as per by the employer’s policy. In relationships, this would work well, especially for us young people. When you no longer want someone, you block them. In the streets language, when they “boot you” or leave you, the right to disconnect can work well. Young people will block you. That is what “the right to disconnect” means. Those are just quick definitions, which I wanted Members to be aware of. We are moving to a digital age. That is the future and there will be nothing else. I say without fear of contradiction that the country is ready for the digital age. We are looking at the possibility of people working remotely. Whenever I sit in the County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC), I usually see Sen. Okiya Omtatah coming with a big laptop. I do not know which make it is but I see him working remotely. Sometimes he tells me that he is filing some issues with the courts. That is the direction we should take. Either we agree to change with change or change will change us. I request my friends at the FKE to not fight this law. In fact, I am assisting them. For example, I am a farmer because I have a few cows. Therefore, I am an employer because I have employed a herds boy. That herds boy can call me at night when I am tired and do not want to receive phone calls. It is also a two-way traffic because it will help all of us. I urge the employers and trade unions to embrace the change in the working environment. We cannot keep on asking people to be in the office between 8.00 a.m. to"
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