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"content": "GRANTING OF MANDATORY PAID MATERNITY LEAVE TO WOMEN EMPLOYEES IN PUBLIC/PRIVATE SECTORS THAT, in view of the reproductive and productive role women play in the growth of the Kenyan economy and noting that the Government is a signatory of the resolution of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) 1994; noting further that the Government has committed itself to attaining the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); conscious that both women and children in this country suffer from serious post-natal health problems; this House do grant leave to introduce a Bill for an Act of Parliament entitled the Employment (Amendment) Bill to amend the Employment Act, Cap.226 of the Laws of Kenya, and the Regulation of Wages and Conditions of Employment Act, Cap.229, in order to grant all women employees both in public and private sectors three months mandatory paid maternity leave excluding the annual leave and male employees two weeks paternity leave."
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