WORKING JOURNALISTS AND OTHER NEWSPAPER EMPLOYEES (CONDITIONS OF SERVICE) AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS ACT

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Preliminary
Section 1 : Short title and commencement

Section 2 : Definitions

Working Journalists
Section 3 : Act XIV of 1947 to apply to working journalists

Section 4 : Special provisions in respect of certain cases of retrenchment

Section 5 : Payment of gratuity

Section 5-A : Nomination by working journalist

Section 6 : Hours of work

Section 7 : Leave

Section 8 : Fixation or revision of rates of wages

Section 9 : Procedure for fixing and revising rates of wages

Section 10 : Recommendation by Board

Section 11 : Powers and procedure of the Board

Section 12 : Powers of Central Government to enforce recommendations of the Wage Board

Section 13 : Working journalists entitled to wages at rates not less than those specified in order

Section 13-A : Power of Government to fix interim rates of wages

Section 13-AA : Constitution of Tribunal for fixing or revising rates of wages in respect of working journalists

Non-Journalist Newspaper Employees
Section 13-B : Fixation or revision of rates of wages of non-journalist newspaper employees

Section 13-C : Wage Board for revising rates of wages in respect of non-journalist newspaper employees

Section 13-D : Application of certain provisions

Section 13-DD : Constitution of Tribunal for fixing or revising rates of wages in respect of non-journalist newspaper employees

Application of certain Acts to Newspaper Employees
Section 14 : Act XX of 1946 to apply to newspaper establishment

Section 15 : Act XIX of 1952 to apply to newspaper establishments

Miscellaneous
Section 16 : Effect of laws and agreements inconsistent with this Act

Section 16-A : Employer not to dismiss, discharge, etc., newspaper employees

Section 17 : Recovery of money due from an employer

Section 17-A : Maintenance of registers, records and muster-rolls

Section 17-B : Inspectors

Section 18 : Penalty

Section 19 : Indemnity

Section 19-A : Defects in appointment not to invalidate acts

Section 19-B : Saving

Section 20 : Power to make rules

Section 21 : Repeal of Act 1 of 1955