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    "speaker_name": "Ms. Ndung'u",
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        "legal_name": "Susanna Njoki Ndung'u",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move:- 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 to 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 grants 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 the public and private sectors, three months September 19, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 4021 mandatory paid maternity leave, excluding the annual leave and male employees two weeks paternity leave."
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