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    "id": 227736,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/227736/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. Mwau",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Labour and Human Resource Development",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 360,
        "legal_name": "Adelina Ndeto Mwau",
        "slug": "adelina-mwau"
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am not aware that sugar companies have been employing cane cutters as temporary workers. I am, however, aware that cane cutters from Nzoia Sugar Company and West Kenya Sugar Company are paid directly on behalf of farmers. The rest, in Sony, Chemilil, Muhoroni and Mumias sugar companies, are employed by contractors. The cane cutters are not employed on temporary terms but on piece-rate basis. Piece work employment relationship provides for any work done, and its pay is determined by the amount of work performed irrespective of the time taken in its performance. (b) Employment of cane cutters on a piece-rate basis is legal and farmers, either directly or through contractors, have not flouted any labour laws. The Employment Act, Cap.226, Laws of Kenya, Section 2, allows for engagement of workers on a piece-rate basis. (c) The companies cannot be forced to have cane cutters on a permanent and pensionable basis because they are contracted by independent agents."
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