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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, hon. Ahenda should care to know that my young communist friend has been my client for the last many years and I know him. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to contribute to this Bill and I will start where hon. Ethuro left. In a liberalised economy and labour market, Parliament cannot, today, pass a Bill to deal with wage guidelines. I want to urge the Minister and I have mentioned that to him as we were seated here to delete from this Bill the whole of Part VII. It has no relevance whatsoever. The market forces of demand and supply will determine what wages are payable to employees in this country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, when you have wage guidelines, sometimes, you make the workers to suffer because even where employers want to pay more, they go by the guidelines and underpay the workers. We should leave the workers, through the trade unions to bargain for their wages. Equally, we should leave employers to pay and scout for talent. If I have three or four people on the same scale, I have a duty and a right as an employer to pay one more May 17, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1467 than the other, depending on his level of production instead of being tied to issues of wage guidelines. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, one simple thing, if you look at page 409, the Bill says: \"The enactment of the Bill will not occasion additional expenditure of public funds.\" That is not true. In this Bill, we can see that there will be a Board and many other organs whose officers will be paid salaries and operational costs. I hope the Minister will delete that statement. I do not agree with him that the passing of the Bill will not occasion expenditure. It will occasion quite a substantial expenditure of public funds because to run the Board, we will need a budget."
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