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    "id": 1345749,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Deputy Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, Article 119 of the Constitution accords any person the right to petition Parliament to consider any matter within its authority. Further, Standing Order 225(2)(b) requires the Speaker to report to the House any Petition other than those presented by a Member. In this regard, I wish to report to the House that my Office has received a Petition from former employees of Bohemian Flowers Limited in Nakuru County. The Petitioners are citing unfair redundancy, summary dismissal and suspension from employment. The Petitioners state that the management of Bohemian Flowers Limited based their dismissal criteria on a violent strike that had occurred at the premises, which they were not part of. The Petitioners further state that the former workers sought assistance from the Labour Office in Naivasha Sub-County under Section 71 of the Employment Act on 19th April 2023 without success. The Petitioners aver that their positions were advertised immediately after they were dismissed and recruitment done despite various correspondences between the Labour Office, Naivasha Sub-County and the management of Bohemian Flowers Limited. The Petitioners further aver that even after dismissal, it has become extremely difficult for them to access their pension scheme funds from Kenindia Assurance Company. The Petitioners claim that Bohemian Flowers Limited did not use payroll numbers while transmitting their wages and salaries, but were paid through biometric machines that have no back-up for purposes of identification. The Petitioners thus seek the intervention of this House to investigate whether the entire process of summary dismissal and suspension from employment was done within the law and whether it was just and fair. Having established that the matter raised in the Petition is well within the authority of this House; and further that the matters raised in this Petition are not pending before any court of law or any constitutional or legal body, I hereby commit the Petition to the Public Petitions Committee for consideration, pursuant to Standing Order 208A. The Committee is required to consider the Petition and report its findings to the House and the Petitioners in accordance with Standing Order 227(2)."
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