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

1955

Related Legislation: - Working Journalists Rules, 1957 - Working Journalists Rates of Wages Act, 1958

AUTHORITIES

Authority Duties Powers
Central Government To determine the extent of the act and to make rules to give effect to the Act To modify recommendations of the wage board, enforce recommendations of the Wage Board, fix interim rate of wages, make rules under the Act, appoint Tribunals to determine wages of Working Journalists
Wage Boards To fix or revise rates of wages of working journalists and non-journalist newspaper establishment employees To make recommendations to the Central Government on wage rates for employees in newspaper establishments
Inspectors To implement and enforce the Act To require an employer to furnish information, enter and inspect any premises at all reasonable hours with assistants, examine any register record or notice, examine any people on the premises and make copies of or take extracts from any register, record