Reps consider Labour Bill today
THE House of Representatives will today commence consideration of report on the Trade Unions Amendment Bill even as the committee that worked on the bill has rejected the "no strike" clause.
The House on September 15 constituted a 17-man ad hoc committee headed by Obeten Obeten to work on the bill and make recommendations.
But in the report that will be debated today, the committee threw out the clause that sought to outlaw industrial action, pointing out that it is against the principle of democracy.
The committee also rejected the amendment seeking to confer on the minister the responsibility of registering trade unions, since the registrar is an employee of government.
At the end of today's exercise, both chambers (Senate and the House of Representatives) will raise a joint committee to harmonise the bill.
The Senate had already passed its own version of the bill.
