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Wage board recommendations for media cleared
Tuesday October 25, 2011 06:04:56 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The
government Tuesday presented a Diwali gift to journalists and
other employees of newspapers and news agencies by approving the
recommendations of their wage boards.
The decision, taken at a meeting of the union cabinet Tuesday,
will benefit more than 40,000 employees of newspapers and news
agencies across the country, an official release said.
Justice (Retd) G.R. Majithia headed both the wage boards - one for
journalists and another for non-journalist employees - which were
appointed in May 2007.
"The cabinet today approved the final recommendations alongwith
certain corrections and rectifications carried out under the
Working Journalists and Other Newspaper Employees Act, 1955," the
release added.
The revised wages will be paid with retrospective effect from July
2010.
The recommendations regarding allowances like the transport
allowance, house rent allowance and hardship allowance will come
into effect from the date of the notification of the wage board
awards in the gazette.
Though the Supreme Court is currently hearing a petition filed by
some newspaper managements challenging the wage boards' reports,
which were submitted on Dec 31, 2010, the apex court said recently
that it was not preventing the government from approving the
recommendations.
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