New Delhi, 30 October . Indian Federation of Working Journalists (IFWJ) celebrated its 74th foundation day today across the country and resolved to fight to protect and save the Working Journalist Act of 1955. However, the government is bent on abolishing this act by merging it into the proposed four labour codes. The irony is that instead of putting the Working Journalist Act in any particular code it has been scattered into all four wage codes namely, Code on Wages, Industrial Relations Code, Social Security Code, and Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, If the Working Journalist Act is scrapped then there will be no wage boards and privileges available to the fourth estate.
IFWJ demanded that instead of abrogating the Working Journalist Act, its ambit and scope should be expanded to include all the genres of media including electronic, web, print and digital. At present, only journalists belonging to print media fall under the Working Journalist Act.
Among those who spoke in the meeting were IFWJ Secretary General Parmanand Pandey, its legal cell convenor Mohan Babu Aggarwal, DUWJ President Alkshendra Singh Negi, leader of the Dainik Jagran Employee Union Vivek Tyagi, and the Chief Correspondent of Virat Swaroop Vijay Verma and well-known journalist Geeta Rawat. The main function was held at the Sports Club of India in New Delhi. It was also resolved to restart the publication of the ‘ Working Journalist’.
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