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    "content": "I think the Ministry can do more than it is doing now with regard to labour disputes. I do not know why it is difficult for the Ministry to think in terms of how it can structure payment of salaries and wages in a different way. This is very worrying. Now, we are talking about the Kenya Airways being forced to review salaries through the courts, and yet it is making losses. I wonder what will happen next year. If it continues making losses, that airline will easily go under. If it goes under even those employees who are clamouring for higher salaries will go home with nothing. This is a very worrying situation. The Ministry should know exactly when to allow even the courts to award higher salaries. The employees may deserve a better salary but there can be a way of working out that formula. When companies are making profits, let them pay more in form of bonuses. When they are making losses, let them be left to go scot-free as long as you also ascertain that they have not inflated their bills to make sure that they do not declare profits. This is not difficult to prove because every employee in a company will be the custodian of the documents which can be doctored. If the documents are not doctored, profits will be very clear, and a company which makes profits should be able to pay its employees well. The company that is not making profits is like milking a cow which is already dry and is not even fed. What do you expect? You can only milk blood. It cannot happen. That is an issue which the Ministry must think and think outside the box because we have to get rid of that problem. The other day we saw the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) saying that there is going to be a disaster. We are worried because some of us are investors there and we do not want it to happen. That is an issue that we cannot continue ignoring. The Ministry must think outside the box. It is also important for me to declare here and now that the issue of the Ministry not commenting about the retirement age shooting to 60 years is not proper. I do not know why you are keeping quiet. We have many young people who are not working. They are jobless and yet the Ministry is quiet. We are waiting for the day that you are going to bring that Bill here. Some of us are not good at talking but expect a lot of fireworks. We will not support the age 60 years as the retirement age of civil servants."
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