{"id":464265,"date":"2011-07-19T16:53:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T16:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/19\/salaries-bill-referred-to-parliament\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T16:53:18","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T16:53:18","slug":"salaries-bill-referred-to-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/19\/salaries-bill-referred-to-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Salaries Bill Referred to Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"49.6427158866\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/nation180.jpg\" alt=\"The Nation (Nairobi)\" title=\"Visit The Nation (Nairobi)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Caroline Wafula<\/p>\n<p>19 July 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Nairobi \u2014 President Mwai Kibaki on Tuesday declined to assent to the Salaries and Remuneration Commission Bill and referred it back to Parliament with proposed amendments.<\/p>\n<p>The Bill was presented to the President on June 21 in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution for assent after it was passed by Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>The President in a memorandum to Parliament explained his reasons stating that the Bill did not make provision for appointment of one Commissioner nominated by a joint forum of professional bodies as provided for by law.<\/p>\n<p>The Salaries and Remuneration Commission Bill is among constitutional bills that must be passed to ensure comprehensive reforms in the public service.<\/p>\n<p>It seeks to establish the Commission that will determine the salaries and remuneration paid to the state and public officers.<\/p>\n<p>He cited Article 230 (2) ( c ) (iii) of the Constitution, which requires that the membership of the Commission includes one person nominated by a joint forum of professional bodies as provided by legislation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ideally, provision for appointment of the member under this Article should have been made in the published Bill. Unfortunately this appears to have been overlooked,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>It has emerged that a proposal to amend the Bill at the committee stage in Parliament where MPs scrutinised and considered the Bill clause by clause was omitted from the Order Paper when it come up for consideration.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal sought to incorporate the missing provision and was submitted to the Office of the Clerk of the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>The President was informed that it was accidentally omitted from the Order Paper on the material day and was not therefore incorporated into the Bill before passage.<\/p>\n<p>In line with Article 230 (3) of the Constitution, the member nominated by professional bodies is one of the voting members of the Commission and therefore is crucial to decision making.<\/p>\n<p>President Kibaki told Parliament in his memorandum that it is therefore imperative that the Bill be amended to facilitate the appointment of the member alongside other members of the Commission once the law comes into force.<\/p>\n<p>He has recommended amendment of Clause 4 of the Bill as had earlier been proposed by renumbering the current sub-clause (2) as sub clause (3) and inserting a new sub clause (2) to make provisions for nomination of a member of the commission by a joint forum of professional bodies represented by the Association of Professional Societies of East Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Other functions of the Commission once established will be to advise the national and county governments on the harmonization, equity and fairness of remuneration for the attraction and retention of requisite skills in the public sector.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201107191355.html\" title=\"Salaries Bill Referred to Parliament\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Salaries Bill Referred to Parliament<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Caroline Wafula 19 July 2011 Nairobi \u2014 President Mwai Kibaki on Tuesday declined to assent to the Salaries and Remuneration Commission Bill and referred it back to Parliament with proposed amendments. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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