Its time to rejoice for the journalists in the new year, as the statutory Wage Boards for Working Journalists, Non-Journalists and other news agency employees, has submitted their recommendations to the Centre asking hiking the basic salary of the working journalists, non-journalists and other news paper employees to three times from the current basic pay structure.
Submitting the recommendations to the Labour and Employment Secretary Prabhat Chaturvedi, the Chairman of the Board Justice G R Majithia Friday informed the media that board has also recommended the retirement age of Journalist to 65 years, granting paternity leave to male employees, night shift allowance, hard ship allowance; transport allowance and House rent allowance for different class of establishments.
The calculation of the revised pay is recommended to calculate the basic pay after merging the existing basic pay, dearness allowance and the 30 per cent interim relief which was granted earlier besides 35 per cent variable pay. And all these recommendations are asked to be implemented since January 08, 2008, added wages committee.
The wages boards were set up in May 2007 with a three-year term that got a six-month extension earlier this year for studying anomalies of Journo's salary structure.
The Labour and Employment Ministry first study the recommendations then it would be tabled before Union Cabinet for approval.
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