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    "id": 222948,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Muturi",
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        "legal_name": "Justin Bedan Njoka Muturi",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I said that I welcome this innovation here called \"sub-ordinate labour courts\". But it is defined again to mean: \"subordinate labour court\" means a subordinate labour court established by the Labour Institutions Act. So, the same argument that I have advanced regarding the office of the registrar and that, as I said yesterday, of the person they are calling the \"director\" and even where they have imported the meaning of a medical doctor. The same, same argument obtains. The innovation is good, but let us just give the meaning here. We want to establish subordinate labour courts, but can we clearly establish them under this Bill and give those subordinate courts specific jurisdictions? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the reason I welcome this development is that, granted that an employer is defined somewhere here in greater detail, as a person who would be required to keep a register of all his employees if he employs over 25 people.That means we are talking about employment at the very low levels in the villages. The innovation and beauty of having a subordinate labour court is that people working in the rural areas will have access to some form of justice when they suffer or when they are subjected to some minor mistreatment at their places of work. In the past, as long as the dispute was labour-related, the matter had to be reported to the labour officer and the trade unions. There are not many trade unions in the rural areas. Actually, very many cases of violations of the rights of workers have gone without being addressed."
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