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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Cabinet seal on wage board proposals

Cabinet seal on wage board proposals

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published Published on Oct 26, 2011   modified Modified on Oct 26, 2011

-PTI

 

The Union cabinet today approved the recommendations of the Majithia wage boards allowing an increase in salaries and allowances that will benefit over 40,000 newspaper employees, including journalists.

The revised wage will be applicable with effect from July 1, 2010, while other allowances, such as those for transport, house rent and hardship, shall be effective from the date of notification in the gazette, labour minister Mallikarjun Kharge said.

The revised pay scale will be calculated on the old basic pay plus the dearness allowance admissible up to June 2010 plus 30 per cent of the interim relief which has already been given.

Kharge said newspapers have been classified into eight categories and news agencies into four on the basis of their gross revenue.

The revised pay will also comprise variable pay at the rate of 35 per cent for employees working in the first four categories of newspaper establishments and 20 per cent for the remaining categories. The variable pay should be added to the revised basic pay for calculation of all allowances.

Kharge said the house rent allowance would be applicable at the rate of 30, 20 and 10 per cent, respectively, for the X, Y and Z cities, while the same in the case of transport allowances will be at the rate of 20, 10 and 5 per cent, respectively.

Similarly, medical allowance of Rs 1,000 would be paid to each employee every month in the top two classes of newspapers and news agencies and Rs 500 for III and IV categories in newspapers.

Kharge said the proposal has been sent to the legislative department of the law ministry for notification. “We want the notification to happen as soon as possible.”

The Telegraph, 26 October, 2011, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1111026/jsp/nation/story_14669785.jsp


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