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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Eseli",
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        "legal_name": "David Eseli Simiyu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I beg to move:- THAT, the Human Resources Management Professionals Bill, 2012 be read a Second Time. In moving this Bill, I would like to bring the attention of the House to what necessitated this Bill to be brought to the House. We passed a new Constitution that has led to devolution of most services to the counties, including some elements of human resource management. It would be very serious if we ended up in a situation where each county is practising their own way of human resource management which might not necessarily be consistent with the new Constitution. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we need a body that can actually regulate these activities throughout the country and make it uniform. As we are well aware, the Public Service Commission is perhaps the biggest human resource organization, but mainly dealing with public service. In view of this, you will find that a lot of people have been misplaced and put in the wrong places where they, probably, do not have any qualifications on human resource management. Usually, this has translated into what you find as frequent strikes and industrial action. Mainly this is as a result of poor human resource management. That is not a very good thing we want in this country because we are intending to be a middle income country and we need a lot of investment, especially foreign investment. If you compare Kenya to South Africa, you will find that many of the foreign companies investing in South Africa actually they are wishing to move out of there and, perhaps, latch in a place like Kenya because of the facts that there are frequent strikes and industrial unrests in South Africa which lead to interference with their investment. However, when you have proper human resource management as we do in Kenya so far, and this Bill intends to improve on it, you will find that foreign investors find it a more conducive atmosphere in the sense that industrial unrest is mitigated because human resource management is being handled by well qualified people who should be able to handle that area very well. Professionals in every field in Kenya have been setting up organizations that self- regulate them. For example, we have lawyers covered by the Law Society of Kenya. The accountants also have a body regulating them. Recently, in 2007, we passed the Supplies Practioners Management Act, 2007 which deals with the people in the procurement area. So, you realize that many professionals have come up with bodies that regulate their activities. Some of them institute disciplinary against their members if they go out of their code of conduct. In the process, you find a well organized area like the huge human resource pool that Kenyans possess yet the human resource sector has got no self- regulating mechanism. If this Bill becomes an Act of Parliament, it intends to put a self- regulatory mechanism for this category of professionals. It is not a new thing. You will find it in Canada and Australia. We have actually looked at what these countries were doing and tried to tailor it to suit our local situation. As I said before, the Public Service Commission is the largest human resource organization in this country. However, you will be very surprised to find that because of the frequent transfers in the public service, people are transferred by the Public Service Commission (PSC) who are not necessarily human resource experts. This can lead to a"
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