MPs kill Bill that limits workers’ right to strikeBudget Committee Chairman Kimani Ichung'wa at Hilton Garden Inn Hotel, Mombasa Road in October 2019. The Labour Relations (Amendment) Bill, 2019, which was the brain child of Kikuyu MP Kimani Ichung’wa, targets nurses, doctors and air traffic controllers. Others are sanitation workers, meteorologists, marine and port navigational workers, and electricity and telecommunication services workers. In rejecting the Bill, the committee noted that some of its provisions are impractical and violate the rights of workers to go on strike. “The committee, having considered the Labour Relations (Amendment) Bill clause by clause, and taking into consideration the views and recommendations of the public, rejects the Bill in totality,” said the MPs.

Source: Standard Digital March 09, 2020 06:45 UTC