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    "id": 575115,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/575115/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Shaban",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 139,
        "legal_name": "Naomi Namsi Shaban",
        "slug": "naomi-shaban"
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    "content": "These things will bring us together. We should look into issues that concern our Kenyan youths, so that they can study courses that they qualified in, join professions that are useful to this country and then they can get the right employment. The other day, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the United Nations (UN) had indicated the minimum wage that our domestic assistants should be earning and yet public servants of the lowest cadres do not earn as much as domestic assistants. How are they supposed to pay the domestic assistants? The National Employment Authority is going to harmonise and put all the players together, so that we can get the right way forward. This will ensure that the disparities of the minimum wage in our people are a thing of the past. Employees of the national Government and the county government earn different salaries. You will find a nurse who has just been employed by the county government is earning far much more than a nurse who had been seconded to the county government. This has brought a lot of disharmony in our employment sector. This policy has come at the right time. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the National Employment Authority should look into issues of our people who go and work out there. This is more so, the major issue in the whole country of our women dying in the Middle East because of being mistreated. They sneak out of this country and proper modalities are not put in place for them to get employment. It should be a Government to Government arrangement, so that our people are protected. Once this policy is in place and the Authority is able to work with all the stakeholders, then everything will be done in the right way. This policy is coming at the right time. It should have been there some years back. As it is, even the confusion in terms of whether the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) should look into the salaries paid by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) should be dealt with. The other day, a judgement was pronounced on that issue that the SRC has no right to give guidelines on how the TSC should pay teachers. All these things should be looked into through this policy and harmonized. I beg to support."
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