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    "id": 150323,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/150323/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Otieno",
    "speaker_title": "June 2, 2009 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 929 The Minister of State for Public Service",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I apologise for being engaged in official business outside Nairobi. My Assistant Minister could also not reach the House from his constituency. We are both sorry. However, I beg to reply. (a) It is true that civil servants in Tharaka District are not paid hardship allowance like teachers. This is because Tharaka District is not classified as a hardship area for civil servants. Tharaka District was gazetted as a hardship area in 1997 by the Minister for Education following a signed Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) between the Teachers Service Remuneration Committee and the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT). As a result of this gazettement, there is a disparity in the payment of hardship allowance between teachers and the other civil servants. (b) In order to address this disparity, the Government has already completed a study to review all hardship areas and the resultant allowances in the country. This is to ensure that public servants, teachers, disciplined personnel and parastatal employees deployed in hardship areas are all paid harmonised hardship allowances. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this policy is in the spirit of harmonising terms and conditions of service in the entire Public Service. In addition, I wish to confirm that a Cabinet Memorandum has already been prepared to seek Government approval on the recommended hardship areas and the corresponding hardship allowance."
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