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Tuesday 25 October 2011

Cabinet accepts Wage Boards' recommendations with some alterations

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 Cabinet accepts Wage Boards' recommendations with some alterations 
Clean Media Correspondent

New Delhi, Oct 25 (CMC) The Union Cabinet today accepted the recommendations of the Wage Boards which has proposed upto three-time hike in basic pay of journalists and non-journalists in print media.
                               
                     
Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni announced that the Labour and Employment Ministry had moved the Cabinet note in this regard which was taken up by the Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
She said that Government today decided to implement the wage board recommendations for journalists and non journalists providing a quantum jump in their salaries. The recommendations will be implemented with some modifications.

The Information and Broadcasting Minister said that the recommendations will be applicable from 1st July 2010, she said however, transport and house rent allowance will be paid from the date of the notification.
Earlier in its note the labour ministry is understood to have suggested that the Cabinet may take a view which would be subject to the final orders of the Supreme Court which is hearing a writ petition challenging the recommendations of the Majithia Wage Boards.
The recommendations of the Wage Boards for Working Journalists, Non-Journalists and other newspaper employees, submitted to the government on December 31 last year, has been hanging fire for the past 10 months as some media organisations have challenged these.
The Supreme Court on September 21 had given the go-ahead to the government to examine and consider the award of the Wage Boards and pass appropriate orders thereupon.
The Law Ministry, whose view was earlier sought by the Labour Ministry, had said "there appears to be no legal or constitutional objection if approval of the Cabinet is solicited for the proposal ... as the same relates to the matter of policy with which we may concur".
Agrieved employees of newspapers and news agencies had staged nation-wide protest against the Centre's "failure" to notify the recommendations for revision of their salaries.

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