The Working Journalists and other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955 is a welfare measure meant to regulate conditions of service of the people employed in the newspaper industry.
It is related mainly to
Special provisions in respect of certain cases of retrenchment
Payment of gratuity
Hours of work
Leave
Fixation of revision of rates of wages
Enforcement of the recommendations of the wage fixation machinery i.e., wage boards and wage tribunals
Employee’s Provident fund
Recovery of money due from the employer
In order to fix or revise rates of wages, separate Wage Boards for working journalists and other newspaper employees can be set up under the Act. The wage Board for journalists consist of a chairman, two representing working journalists and two independent persons. In the Wage Board for non-journalist newspaper employees, two persons representing them shall be included. The chairman of both the Boards is to be an independent person who is or has been a Judge of the High Court or the Supreme Court.
The Central Government may fix interim rates of wages (popularly called ‘interim relief) in consultation with the Boards.
Money due to an employee under this Act can be recovered from the employer by the Collector in the same manner as an arrear of land revenue, and have it paid to the employee.
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