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    "id": 837380,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "The Petitioners contend that the Public Service Policy stipulates that public servants working in hardship areas are entitled to hardship allowances and that the Government has been discriminative in paying the said hardship allowances. The Petitioners contend the following, that: (i) The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) and the Teachers Service Commission (TSC), together with other State organs, receive hardship allowances in more areas than other offices under the Public Service Commission; and (ii) There is urgent need to appreciate and recognise the marginal differences of hardship in arid and semi-arid areas in terms of award of proportionate hardship allowances. The Petitioners therefore pray that the National Assembly: (1) Conducts investigations into the circumstances under which there are disparities and/or discrimination in payment of hardship allowances for public servants; (2) Causes the Government to gazette the classification of current arid and semi- arid areas and cause the Public Service Commission to honour the 2012 gazetted list of hardship areas; (3) Recommends that Salaries and Remuneration Commission should harmonise and standardise the rate of allowances for arid and semi-arid areas; and (4) Recommends that the Salaries and Remuneration Commission should harmonise payment of hardship allowances for all public servants."
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