Allahabad High Court Imposes Costs On Dainik Jagran's Publisher For Denying Wage Benefits To Employees
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Allahabad High Court Imposes Costs On Dainik Jagran's Publisher For Denying Wage Benefits To Employees

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The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday imposed a cost of Rs. Paragraph 20-J of the Wage Board recommendations is as under: “20 The revised pay scales shall become applicable to all employees with effect from the 1st of July 2010. However, if an employee within three weeks from the date of publication of the Government Notification u/s 12 of the Act enforcing these recommendations exercises his / her option for retaining his existing pay scales and existing emoluments, he/she shall be entitled to retain his / her existing scales and such emoluments.” Before the writ Court, Jagran Prakashan contended that the employees had retained their existing wages and existing emoluments through a voluntary undertaking in terms of the mandate of para 20 of the recommendations. “The argument of the counsel for the petitioner in the light of the provisions of Clause 20, if accepted, would render the entire Act inapplicable and if the said argument is accepted, the same would be in clear violation of the mandate of Section 12, 13, 13-C, 13-D and Section 16 of the Act,” held the Court which has been challenged in the review jurisdiction. “Before rejecting the review application on the reasonings as recorded above, it is essential to deprecate the conduct of the petitioners who have continued to avoid the enforcement of the Wage Board recommendations from the date of notification on 11.11.2011 and have resorted to taking defenses by taking shield of the agreements which give the benefits which are less than what were recommended by the Wage Board and have continued to deny the benefits on one ground or the other, thus, frustrating the entire scheme of the Act and the benefits which flow in favour of non-journalist newspaper employees for years together,” observed the Court.

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