Govt: No proposal to include electronic media under Wage Board

NEW DELHI: The government has categorically said there is no proposal at present to include all journalists in electronic media under the Wage Board.

Minister of State for Labour & Employment Kodikunnil Suresh clarified in Parliament that journalists from the electronic media are not covered under the Wage Board for journalists.

The Ministry administers the Working Journalists and Other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955 for the purpose of fixing/revising rates of wages and for regulating service conditions of Working Journalists and Non-Journalist Newspaper Employees only.

Currently, the matter relating to Wage Boards for Journalists in pending in the Supreme Court.