RIGHTS OF WORKERS

News Paper Employees Act

(CONDITIONS OF SERVICE ACT, 1973)

Order of appointment: 

 

A newspaper establishment employing a newspaper employee shall, at the time of this appointments transfer or promotion, furnish to him an order in writing showing the terms and conditions of his service.

Procedure of Termination:

The service of newspaper employe shall not be terminated by a newspaper establishment without good cause shown,through a notice,in writing,of such termination

1 month notice for less than 2 years job period.

2 months notice for less than more than 2 years and less than 3 years

3 months notice for three years job.

Hours of Work:

Newspaper employe shall be reqired to work not more than 8 hours a day .

Annual Leaves:

(a)  33 days leaves with salary in a year.

(b) Leave on medical certificate on one-half of the wages, for not less than one-eighteenth of the id of service subject to a minimum period of ten days in a calendar year; and

(c)      Fifteen days’ casual leave of absence with wages in a calendar year.

Gratuity:

1 month salary after every year of service. For example If a worker worked for 5 years for a newspaper.He is entitled to get 5 months salaries as gratuity after his resignation or termination.

Provident Fund:

(1)    Every newspaper establishment shall constitute for the benefit of its newspaper, employees, a Provident Fund in such manner as may be prescribed.

(2)     The Provident Fund shall be held arid administered by a Board of Trustees consisting of an equal number of representatives of the newspaper establishment constituting the Fund and of the newspaper employees employed in it, chosen and appointed in such manner as may be prescribed.

(3)     Every newspaper employee shall, after the completion of the first two years of his service with any newspaper establishment, subscribe to the provident Fund, every month, a sum not less than 6 ¼ per cent, and not more than 10 per cent of his monthly wages, and the employer in relation to that establishment shall contribute to it an equal amount.

(4)     During the first three months of his service, the newspaper employee may or may not, at his option subscribe to the Provident Fund and, if he so subscribes, the employers in relation to the newspaper establishment shall subscribe to it an equal amount.
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