{"id":2783,"date":"2021-03-31T10:52:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T07:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theinvolvement.wordpress.com\/?p=2783"},"modified":"2021-03-31T10:52:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T07:52:29","slug":"parents-adopting-children-to-get-paid-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/2021\/03\/31\/parents-adopting-children-to-get-paid-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents Adopting Children to get Paid Leave"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Fatiha Shabir<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>(<\/strong><a href=\"mailto:fatihashabz@gmail.com\"><strong>fatihashabz@gmail.com<\/strong><\/a><strong>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theinvolvement.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/03\/zylithmz7dmfkbon6062f0eaac371.jpg?w=664\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2787\" \/><figcaption>President Uhuru Kenyatta at State House, signing a bill into law &#8211; PSCU<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Uhuru Kenyatta on Tuesday, signed into law the Employment (Amendment) Bill of 2019, which will allow parents who apply for adoption of children to be granted one-month pre-adoptive leave with full pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The signing happened at State House, Nairobi and was attended by National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi, majority Leader Amos Kimunya and Head of Public Service Dr Joseph Kinyua.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new Bill amends the Employment Act of 2007 and states that an employee who is an adoptive parent of a child below the age of two, is entitled to an adoption leave of one month inclusive of full pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Bill also includes paternity leave where a male employee, immediately after the delivery of his child, shall have the right to a paternity leave for a period of 14 days with full pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The President also signed into law the Business Laws (Amendment) Bill of 2021 which amends several statutes to facilitate the ease of doing business in Kenya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Uhuru Kenyatta on Tuesday, signed into law the Employment (Amendment) Bill of 2019, which will allow parents who apply for adoption of children to be granted one-month pre-adoptive leave with full pay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}