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    "id": 3131,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mututho",
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        "legal_name": "John Michael Njenga Mututho",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that The Labour Institutions (Amendment) Bill be now read a Second Time. I thank the Executive for reminding me that we are reading this Bill for the second time. I want, on the outset, to say that I have received a lot of communication from the Kenya Flower Council, in particular and individual farmers from all over the world. I have received heaps and heaps of communications. However, they all agree on one thing; that they are paying their workers over Kshs10,000. None of them admits that they are paying Kshs3,700, Kshs3,500 or Kshs3,200. So, they all admit that the way to go is for everybody to do a living wage. What is a living wage? A living wage is coined by the ethics which are drawn by the industry itself. These people met and set the minimum standards that somebody must meet in order to export flowers to the rest of the world. I thank Naivasha people because they produce 50 per cent of the world’s red roses daily, but at what price? For every banquet of flower one produces, the money is enough to pay a worker for a whole month. I do not want to say the whole story just in case you hate the roses because roses are very good flowers. When somebody buys you a rose, you find it to be a very good move. However, if you imagine that a worker produces 20 banquets and only one banquet pays the salary for the whole month--- I will table in this House some of the pay slips to prove that some people are paying Kshs110 per day. You will have to bear with me that we have to do these amendments so that we have the very minimum to conform to the industry; and that is Kshs10,000."
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