Discussion Q9: Are the Kenyan laws adequate to protect the youth and women from exploitation by BPO&O employers?
If you operate within existing laws in Kenya today, it is unlikely that anybody will be exploited. The more pertinent question is 'Are the current labour laws in Kenya conducive for BPO operations?' I do not know myself.
Think about the newly enacted law which touches on maternity and paternity leave. Struggling BPO enterprises may find it hard to pay salaries for employees who are legally kept away from work. Is it fro example against the law to facilitate and allow mother and baby to be present at place of work? Are there call centres doing this?
The business community is already contesting the laws. See http://www.hackenya.org/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=5960&Itemid=534 for a recent session of the Prime Minister's Round Table.
Labour Law experts around?
Peter
Muthoni,
Two issues here but I think we should focus more on the first paragraph that you discuss so well. However, I will allow the occasional digression on the second issue of interpreting gender issues but that debate has been on in various fora and for now we know that gender issues in Kenya seem more inclined to women's issues though we know the definition includes both. For now listers delve on the questions and if the definitional issues come up in the course of answering them then that is an added bonus.
Why the silence? Why the silence? Why the silence? We are almost there just 3 days left in a very successful discussion so far. Please write......
Nyaki
From: Muthoni Masinde <muthoni@uonbi.ac.ke>Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 2:14:43 PM
Subject: Re: [kictanet] [Bpoteam] Day 7 of 10- BPO Discussions, Youth and Gender Issues
Good afternoon everyone,
Like other issues that have been discussed (Day 1 to day 6), my take is that we must have things right from the beginning. A BPO-specific outfit (like the BPO society) should have the mandate to enforce (or at least lobby the law enforcers) labour laws for this young industry. This way, issues like the one that appeared on the Standard Newspaper sometime back (http://www.eastandard.net/sciencetech/InsidePage.php?id=1144013244&ci) will be unheard of. Furthermore, some clients especially from the US are concerned about how the vendor he/she is giving work to treats employees.
On a light note; could we begin re-thinking this whole issue of interpretation ‘gender issues’ to mean ‘women issues’; men are ‘threatened too!
Muthoni
From: kictanet-bounces+muthoni=uonbi.ac.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+muthoni=uonbi.ac.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Catherine Adeya
Sent: 10 June 2009 08:08
To: muthoni@uonbi.ac.ke
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Handing over to Nyaki - 2nd Moderator
Thanks Walu, will do so shortly.
Best,
Nyaki (aka Dr. C. Adeya, C. Nyaki Adeya and C. Adeya-Weya)
From: Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com>
To: elizaslider@yahoo.com
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 7:58:41 AM
Subject: [kictanet] Handing over to Nyaki - 2nd Moderator
Dear Listers,
As per the schedule, I am pleased to hand-over the rest of the moderation to Nyaki who will introduce the remaining themes starting with the "Youth and Gender" theme today.
Nyaki's CV is too long to fit in one email but its suffice to say that she belongs to this breed of Researchers that wants to bridge the gap between Academia and Socio-economic realities of out times. The rest of her story can be googled, but remember to use her official "handle" - Dr. Catherine Adeya.
Over to you Nyaki. Plse tell us about today's theme.
walu.
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