Dr. Newton Wanjala Kulundu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 16 Oct 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I beg to move that the House doth agree with the Committee in the said Report. view
• 16 Oct 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I think we are making a mistake here. For example, if a female employee gets maternity leave of three months and then one month later, she adopts a child and also claims a paid adoption leave of three months; I think this is something that will be open to abuse. We must, therefore, think carefully about it. view
• 16 Oct 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I will be very brief. Medically speaking, an infant is a child who is either one year old or below. I have stood because my worry is that unless we put intervals, there will be employees who will claim to be--- view
• 16 Oct 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I wholly accept the sentiments expressed in this Bill. But this Part is talking about public Service. As you can see, the listed things there are public service. The Minister of State for Public Service is here. So, I do not want to take away his responsibilities. I think this question should be re-directed to the Ministry of State for Public Service. view
• 16 Oct 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, we must go into the historical perspective of this Bill in order to understand the contradictions. It is true that people were free to take their suggestions to the relevant Departmental Committee that was dealing with this Bill. But then, all of a sudden, two weeks ago when the Bill was here, we were informed that there were some amendments that were not included in the Bill. So, we must give the hon. Member a chance to move--- view
• 16 Oct 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I oppose. view
• 16 Oct 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I beg to move that the Committee doth report to the House its consideration of the Employment Bill and its approval thereof with amendments. view
• 16 Oct 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I beg to move that the House doth agree with the Committee in the said Report. view
• 16 Oct 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I beg to move that the Employment Bill be now read the Third Time. view
• 11 Oct 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am aware that 87 casual employees engaged by a Mr. George Kang'ethe Mwanzia, a sub-contractor of Nyari Sisal Estate, Taru, have not been paid a balance of Kshs6,324,030 from a total of Kshs19,250,000 that was agreed upon in clearing 50 blocks of bushes at the latter's sisal 4420 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES October 11, 2007 plantation. The non-payment of Kshs6,324,030 was occasioned by the fact that the employees did not perform the job to the satisfaction of the management. Consequently, the management asked the employees to re-do the clearing. However, to date ... view