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    "id": 1381032,
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    "speaker_name": "Darogetti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. When you go through the content of the Bill and look at how we manage the laws of employment in this country, and across the world, the person who thought about this seems to have not looked at our Public Service Commission Act. He never specified the cluster of employees. If there are civil servants, you cannot treat them as you wish. The Bill is either talking to a group that we have not seen working in this country or one that is about to come. In this case, you give such regulations knowing very well the moment one goes to an interview and is given a letter of acceptance, then there are rules and regulations of that institution that you abide by as the code of conduct. I normally say there are five behaviour models for an employee in any workplace. One is trust and secondly, you must learn how to deal with conflict. The others are commitment, accountability and results. When the Bill talks about not working overtime, that the employer cannot even call you out of working hours, what if you, as an employee, have been given an assignment but you have been so slow on it and go beyond working hours? What happens to this person? Will he take advantage and use the same policy to take his employer to court? When talking about employment, it is the most sensitive thing. That is why any lawyer who walks into court on a matter concerning an employee, the first thing the judge does is give orders to that person to return to work. Then you now come and go through your case. If they find you culpable, yes, you will go home. You are, however, always given orders to return to work. Therefore, that protection is there for any person who is employed in this country. I look at the Senate, and I want to tell them they have to look very critically at the employees in counties. They need a critical law just to get their pension. How I wish they could bring that to this House. They need a critical law to safeguard them. You find a governor who can just decide today that you should not be there. You would not be employed. You have been employed for 10 years, yet you are thrown out in one second. They now need to bring an employment law for county government workers that can protect them properly. You find county assemblies are even more organised than the Executive side. How I wish that is what they can do for us so that even those on the Executive side can find themselves in proper contract. If I am given a contract of three, four or five years, it should not become a political contract but a contract like any other person who is employed in this country. For them to bring this to us is very unfortunate. We are not rejecting this because it is a Senate Bill. We are saying you are contravening the laws of employment in the country. They are well stipulated. We have different Articles that take care of that. If you want to amend, then you have to go through all those laws and then bring a very clear amendment. We shall look at it and support it. We also have to inform the Senate that when talking about employment, please cluster so that we understand. Are you talking about those who are on contract or permanent and pensionable terms? Are you talking about informal? Are you talking about our dhobi services? Who are you giving this law to enjoy? The civil servants, our teachers and everyone else can never be a beneficiary of this. If you are a teacher in a boarding school, you already agree with the code of conduct and can be on duty at any given time. Therefore, you will receive calls from your principal, or even from above and beyond to ensure safety of the students is prioritised. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
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