New Delhi, 28.09.2019: Journalists of electronic and digital media will also be included in the Working Journalists Act and they will get all benefits which are available to the journalists of print media, this was told by the Union Minister for Labour and Employment Santosh Gangwar to a delegation of Indian Federation of Working Journalists (IFWJ).
A memorandum was submitted to Shri Gangwar on behalf of the IFWJ asking him to make the Working Journalists Act self-reliant Act and it should not be subsumed with other labour laws because it is distinct in its working and nature. When it was enacted in 1955 on the recommendations of First Press Commission it became an Act of its own kind, totally different from other Acts. The employees covered under the Working Journalists Act get the benefits of the Industrial Disputes Act besides availing the other welfare legislations.
The memorandum said that the Act provides for the revisions of the wages and allowances of the employees from time to time. It demanded that the contract appointment of journalists should be prohibited and Wage Boards should be appointed after eight years from the previous Wage Board, which will take care of the neutralisation of the inflation. Shri Santosh Gangawar assured the delegation his government is seized of the difficulties of the Working Journalists. The delegation included IFWJ Vice-President, Hemant Tiwari, Secretary-General, Parmanand Pandey, Secretary, Siddharth Kalhans, Treasurer, Rinku Yadav and Special Invitee Ravindra Mishra.
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