The following specific reforms will be undertaken:
Policy Reforms
- Develop an Integrated Human Resource Strategy;
- Enact the Employment Policy;
- Develop the Diaspora and Labour export policy;
- Formulate and implement the Wages and Incomes Policy, Review of the 16 wage regulation orders;
- Enact the Child labour Policy;
- Develop a National Occupational Safety and Health policy;
- Develop a Productivity Policy;
- Formulate and implement a multi-sectoral National Social Security Policy;
- Wages and Incomes Policy;
- Implementation of Employment Policy and Strategy for Kenya which will give a comprehensive framework for large scale employment creation including the establishment of a 24 hour economy; and
- Fast Track implementation of Sessional Paper No. 2 of 2005 on Development of Micro and Small Enterprises for Wealth and Employment Creation for Poverty Reduction.
Legal Reforms
- Enact and enforce the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Bill;
- Enact of the National Youth Council Bill;
- Finalise the Permanent Public Service Remuneration Review Board (PPSRRB) Bill;
- Entrench workers social and economic rights in the Constitution;
- Formulate and enact the MSE Act;
- Promoting Fundamental Principles and Rights at the workplace;
- Fast Track the implementation of the Labour Institutions Act, 2007, the Labour Relations Act, 2007, the Employment Act, 2007, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, 2007 and Work Injury Benefits Act, 2007.
Institutional Reforms
- Transform the Directorate of Industrial Training into a SAGA;
- Create framework for linkages between industry, education, training and research institutions;
- Establish labour and employment attaché offices;
- harmonise statutes and mandate of public sector wage review bodies;
- Develop labour colleges to offer Diploma and Degree programme on Labour and Employment;
- Establish the Occupational Safety, Health and Injury Benefit’s Authority;
- Develop the Occupational Safety and Health Institute;
- Establish the National Council for Small Enterprise; and
- Transform the NSSF into a pension scheme with wider coverage and more products.
