{"id":19456,"date":"2024-03-28T13:03:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T13:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/28\/jsc-approves-establishment-of-employee-protection-unit\/"},"modified":"2024-03-28T13:03:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T13:03:27","slug":"jsc-approves-establishment-of-employee-protection-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/jsc-approves-establishment-of-employee-protection-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"JSC approves establishment of Employee Protection Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 27 \u2013 The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has approved the establishment of an employee protection unit for victims of sexual harassment within the institution.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the commission, they approved the amendment and adopted the recommendations of establishing an employee Protection unit in the office of the chief justice among others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEstablishment of a Protection Unit in the Office of the Chief Justice aims to develop and safeguard reporting mechanisms for victims of sexual harassment within the institution,\u201d JSC underscored.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the unit will also offer confidential ways to solve sexual harassment complaints and set prevention standards.<\/p>\n<p>The commission boasts of being the only arm of the government that upholds the two-thirds gender rule.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Commission also approved the establishment of a Gender Unit to ensure that the Judiciary remains compliant with the constitutional gender imperative,\u201d the commission noted.<\/p>\n<p>JSC has also approved a Diversity Audit for the judiciary to enhance employee engagement, growth and retention based on data while enforcing a diverse workforce that empower the vulnerable and marginalized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will aide the JSC to improve the number of employees living with disabilities from the current 1% to at least 5%,\u201d the judiciary stated.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021 the commission approved policies targeting the eradication of sexual harassment, promoting gender mainstreaming and fostering affirmative action and diversity within the judiciary,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese policies are aimed at creating a safe working environment, ensuring equality of all persons and elimination of all forms of gender-based discrimination in judicial management, administration and service deliver\u201d JSC stated.<\/p>\n<p>On March 26, the Implementation and oversight committee led by lady Justice Njoki Ndung\u2019u briefed JSC of the policies and gaps that had been identified.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 27 \u2013 The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has approved the establishment of an employee protection unit for victims of sexual harassment within the institution. According to the commission, they approved the amendment and adopted the recommendations of establishing an employee Protection unit in the office of the chief justice among others. \u201cEstablishment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}