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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Maj. Sugow",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Public Service",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Ahmed Sugow",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to second this very important Bill. As has been very eloquently and with great detail covered by the Minister, this Bill is very important for the State officers in this country and public servants in general. If I may give a little background, which the Minister has also indicated, the Constitution of Kenya under Article 230 establishes and provides for membership of the Salaries and Remuneration Commission. Article 250 of the Constitution further provides for enactment of a national legislation to provide:- (a) the manner of identification and recommendation of the chairperson and each member before approval by the National Assembly and appointment by the President; and, (b) the specific qualifications of the chairperson and each member. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, Section 25(2) of the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution requires that the Salaries and Remuneration Commission shall be constituted within nine months after the effective date of the Constitution, which is this month of May. The remuneration package for public servants in the various subsectors in the Public Service for persons performing comparable jobs of equal value is disparate and inequitable. This has been occasioned by the setting of salaries and allowances in the Public Service subsectors by different and unco-ordinated institutions including working committees, commissions, collective bargaining agreements, administrative and institutional processes. This has been done in the absence of a requisite job evaluation exercise to give the comparable worth of positions and thus give the determination of remuneration levels. As a result, there are many inequalities in remuneration within the Public Service today. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Government in 2003, through a Gazette Notice, established the Permanent Public Service Remuneration Review Board, to review and harmonize remuneration in the Public Service. The review and harmonization of remuneration was, however, successful to a limited extent due to the multiple pieces of legislation giving parallel functions to other remuneration review bodies. Currently, there is no single institution responsible for review of remuneration for public officers. The Government developed the pay policy for the Public Service in 2006, whose main objective was to provide a framework for transparent, harmonized, competitive and sustainable remuneration system that supports productivity and efficiency in the public sector. The policy also defined the principles for determining the remuneration structure for the entire Public Service, which included equal pay for equal work, attraction, retention and motivation of personnel with requisite skills and affordability and sustainability of the wage bill. However, some of the Public Service subsectors continue to determine their remuneration without reference to other comparable public institutions or the provisions of the pay policy."
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