petitions and ap
DATE OF JUDGMENT:
08/01/1958
BENCH:
ACT:
Working journalists-Regulation of Conditions of Service-
Constitutionl validity of enactment-Decision of Wage ... unreasonable having regard to
the nature of work to be done by a working journalist. Such
hours of work are fixed
into
an industrial dispute and confer jurisdiction. The Hindu v.
The Working Journalist of the Hindu in Madras ... have been adopted by the members of
the Working Committee of the Indian Federation of Working
Journalists regarding Salivateeswaran 's case. The draft
resolution
Section 2(dd) . The working journalists and those who are not journalists but are employed to do any work in, or in relation ... hours of work, leave and fixation of the rates of wages which are absolutely special to the press industry qua the working journalists and they
entitlement to
gratuity, hours of work, leave as well as fixation of
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wages payable both to the working journalists and
non-journalist newspaper employees ... based on the average gross revenue, were worked out and
the working as well as non-working journalist employees
were classified into different categories
SC1080 (11,14,15,17)
RF 1991 SC1289 (16)
ACT:
Working Journalists (Conditions of Service) and
Miscellaneous Provisions ... work in, or in relation to, any newspaper establishment".
Clause (f) of that section defines a "working journalist" to
mean a person
fund for
the purpose of granting pension to the working journalists, would be deducted.
Petitioner No.1 herein is a company incorporated under the
Companies ... field in relation to the
payment of retiral benefits to the working journalists is
covered by a Parliamentary Act known as the Working
Journalists
National|Representing |
| |Union of Journalists (India) |Working |
| | |Journalists |
|10. |Shri Suresh Akhouri, President, Indian |Representing |
| |Journalists Union |Working |
| | |Journalists |
Wage Board for Non-Journalist Newspaper ... types of newspaper employees, either working
journalists or non-journalists found to be working under common employers.
Having common representatives of the employers
Supl. 472 JT 1988 (2) 244
1988 SCALE (1)990
ACT:
Working Journalists and other Newspapers Employees
(Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions ... work in, or in relation to, any newspaper
establishment, but does not include any such person who is a
working journalist, or is employed mainly
proper evaluation of the nature of and the work of various categories of working journalists; and (3) proper classification of the country into different areas ... prevalent rates of wages for comparable employments the nature of work of the working journalists in newspaper establishments could not be compared with other avocations
relies on Section 5(1)(a)(i) of the Working
Journalists and Other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of
Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955 [for short ... Working Journalists Act']. The relevant part of
Section 5 is as under :-
" Section 5 . Payment of gratuity.-(1) Where -
(a)any working journalist
