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    "id": 1381099,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kangema, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kihungi",
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    "content": "The proposer of the Bill may have raised valid concerns but most of the issues that were raised in the Bill are covered in the Employment Act such as the issue of compensation and overtime. Therefore, we do not have to legislate on switching on and off a phone. The proposer of the Bill should develop a policy to guide on those issues without necessarily coming up with new legislation. As Members have put it, employees’ performance is currently not based on working hours but rather on output. We do not put too much emphasis on the number of hours that a person works but on their output. It has also been confirmed that most institutions that deal with workers have rejected the Bill including the Public Service Commission, the Central Organisation of Trade Unions (COTU-K) which represents workers, and the Federation of Kenya Employers. Therefore, as I said earlier, the Committee and most Members confirm that we should reject the Bill. Those Members who feel that the Bill is necessary should look for a way to legislate the issues that were raised through a policy framework. We cannot come up with a law of this nature. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I respond. Thank you."
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