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The Employment And Training Services (Amendment) Act, 2006 (Bill No. 66)

A BILL

entitled

AN ACT to amend the Employment and Training Services Act, Cap

343.

BE IT ENACTED by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the House of Representatives, in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same, as follows>-
1. This Act may be cited as the Employment and Training Services (Amendment) Act, 2006 and it shall be read and construed as one with the Employment and Training Services Act, hereinafter referred to as “the principal Act”.
2. Immediately after article 15 of the principal Act, there shall be added the following new article>

Short title.

Adds new article

15A to the principal

Act.

“Re- deployment within

the public sector.

15A. (1) Where the Prime Minister considers it necessary that any employee of any body or partnership referred to in article 110(6) of the Constitution should, for the purpose of avoiding the loss of employment of such employee as a result of such employee having become redundant due to a reorganization or restructuring of any said body or partnership, or otherwise, be re-deployed to another employment with another such body or partnership, he may issue an order to that effect and such order shall, notwithstanding the provisions of this Act or of any other
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law and without the requirement of any further procedure or formality, have full effect and validity.
(2) Any order issued under sub-article (1) may include such terms, conditions and time limits as the Prime Minister may deem it appropriate to include in the circumstances for the purpose of regulating the said re- deployment or for the purpose of avoiding any undue burden, anomaly or hardship upon the employer or the employee.”.

Objects and Reasons

The Objects and Reasons of this Bill are the provision of a legal basis for and the facilitation of re-depolyment exercises within the public sector which may become necessary in view of the need to restructure or reorganize bodies corporate or companies pertaining to the sector.