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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we should - I do not know whether this should be in the rules of the court - simplify the process of access to justice because we are talking about workers like watchmen, flower pickers, cleaners and all manner of low level citizens of this country in terms of employment. We should make their access to justice cheap, simple and easy. That is the only way they can realize the benefits of the new Constitution. The Act is also not very clear about the enforcement of the awards. I have practised at the Industrial Court for a long time and I know that awards are given in vain. They are given but they are ignored by the employers especially where there are big employers who manipulate everybody or ignore everybody and get away with it. We should have a clause that makes it very tight and very clear that when an award is given to the workers, it must be enforced within a reasonable period so that if there is no appeal lying then the period of appeal, which is normally 28 days in civil matters, should be the period within which the award must be brought to fruition so that they get the benefits of the outcome of their cases."
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