Apex
court stays media wage revisions -- for now
Monday July 18, 2011 07:59:19 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The
Supreme Court Monday asked the central government not to implement
the recommendations of the National Wage Board for journalists and
other employees for the next two weeks.
The Board, headed by Justice G.R. Majithia, was set up in 2007. It
submitted its report Dec 31, 2010
Justice Dalveer Bhandari and Justice Deepak Verma, however, did
not pass any formal order restraining the union government from
implementing the recommendations.
The order came during the hearing of a petition by the Ananda
Bazar Patrika media group, which said the wage revisions were
being sought to be implemented without the industry getting a copy
of the report.
The Justice Majithia Wage Board was set up after a gap of over a
decade. It had made recommendations for all newspaper employees.
Appearing for the media group, senior counsel Fali Nariman said
the copy of the report was given only to the government.
Counsel for the federation of newspaper employees, Parmanand
Pandey, told the court not to stay the implementation of the wage
board recommendations as the staff had been awaiting wage revision
for nearly for a decade.
Additional Solicitor General Parag P. Tripathi told the court that
the implementation of the wage board recommendations could not be
blocked on the plea of a single newspaper.
The court asked the government to give a copy of the report to the
petitioner within a week, and granted another week to the
newspaper group to present its case.
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