Kenya 1 (Monica Musau)
	Report: Session 4

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SESSION FOUR 

• Francisca Wambua
• Emily Latan
• Emily Opini
• Sarah Munguti
• Benedicta Kilonzo
• Monica Musau
• Michael Otieno
• Amina Shabani
• Nkongoli Lagwida

ACTIVITIES

1. Organising in transnational Corporations

• We have received reports from south Africa, Belgium and Germany but we are unable to discuss them because we are not able to identify which activities they are addressing and the sessions being referred to. We request that future reports should be clearer

2. Strategies to protect Workers’ rights in TNCs

Codes of conduct can only be effective in cases where there are:-

1. Adequate monitoring mechanisms
2. Workers are fully involved and
3. Where transparency and accountability are practiced

• Does the model code of the ICFTU adequately reflect workers needs and demands?

• Yes, the ICFTU Code of conduct adequately reflect workers needs and demands because it incorporates the principal conventions of the ILO and reflects what is contained in the Collective Bargaining Agreement

• If you were preparing a model code of Conduct, what would you include?

• We would include issues such as - preamble
• Protection of child labour
• Employment should be freely chosen
• Non discrimination of sexes
• Observance of ILO Conventions such as 100 and 111
• Freedom of association
• Freedom to organise and bargain collectively
• Occupational health and safety provisions
• Freedom from sexual harassment
• The code of conduct should not be the sole preserve of the employer but jointly negotiated by both workers and the employer
• Protection against forced labour
• Regulated hours of work
• Provision of decent working conditions
• Payment of sufficient living wage
• Good employer and employee relationship (Good Industrial Relationships)

3. Communicating with other members of the ISC

• In our country there are no codes of conduct but we have contracts of service but containing the same items as codes of conduct which are enforced by our labour laws which are usually monitored by the Ministry of Labour’s Factory Inspectorate department
• We also have Collective Bargaining Agreements freely negotiated by our Trade Unions and individual employers and which are enforceable by law and similar to the Codes of Conduct contained in the ICFTU Model

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