JFA pursues for wage board benefits to mediaemployees
Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA), whilemaintaining its demand for all due benefits to media employeesincluding the journalists in accordance with the guidelines of Majithia wageboard, urged the managements of media houses in theregion to implement the latest wage board recommendations to showrespect to the apex court of the country. It may be mentioned that barring the AssamTribune group of publications, no media house in northeast Indiahas so far implemented the Majithia wage board recommendations eventhough the Supreme Court of India had asked every newspaper (and newsagency) management in the country to offer benefits to their employeesfollowing the new wage board directives. “Lately two established media groups of Guwahatihave shown interest to implement the recommendations of Majithiawage board, which we would like to appreciate herewith,” said astatement issued by the JFA adding that other media houses of the regionshould also follow the direction at the earliest. The JFA also fervently appealed to those mediagroups not to play tricks with the interest of theiremployees by offering illogical and unethical proposals. The media forum pointedout that a number of media groups in different parts of the country hadasked most of their senior employees either to resign for no reason orgive written consent accepting whatever benefits the owners could provide,implying to ignore the new wage board benefits. “The media persons engaged in newspaper &news agencies across the country should get united over the issue andfight for their dues. Moreover they should also continue raising voice forlogical benefits to their counterparts in the electronic media as well,” concluded the JFA statement issued by itspresident Rupam Barua and secretary Nava Thakuria. _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
