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Dec 12 1996 (HC)

Weston Electroniks Ltd Vs. Union of India and ors.

Court : Delhi

Reported in : 1997IAD(Delhi)538; 65(1997)DLT587; (1997)ILLJ1230Del

..... claims referable to chapter v-b.(22) in kasturi & sons pvt. ltd. vs . n. salivateswaran and another, : (1958)illj527sc scope of section 17 of the working journalists (conditions of service and miscellaneous provisions) act, 1955 came up for consideration. that section reads as under:- 'where any money is due to a newspaper employee from an ..... an employer under a settlement, award or under the provisions of chapter v-a/v-b.(37) the decision of the supreme court hi bombay union of journalists and others vs . the state of bombay and another, : (1964)illj351sc though concerns the power of the government to prima facie consider the merits of dispute while ..... be the province of industrial tribunal. the decision of the supreme court in punjab land development and reclamation corporation ltd. v. presiding officer,lobarcourt, chandigarh and others 1990 scc 682 where the main question was regarding the interpretation of section 2(00) does not help us in the present case for deciding the question .....

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Aug 05 1992 (HC)

Workmen of Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. Vs. Union of India and Others

Court : Karnataka

Reported in : ILR1992KAR2689; 1992(3)KarLJ610; (1993)ILLJ833Kant

..... ) provides that a sales promotion employee is one who being employed in a supervisory capacity draws wages less than rs. 1,600 per month. 9. the working journalists and other newspaper employees (conditions of service and miscellaneous provisions) act, 1955, where section 5 states that the gratuity payable shall not exceed twelve and a half months ..... sweep all types of employees referred to earlier, but excluded (apart from the members belonging to the armed forces) an employee whose monthly wages (other than remuneration for overtime work) exceeded one thousand six rupees. section 2(9) of the act came to be amended by act 29 of 1989 as aforsaid. prior to ..... employees in the principal clause of the definition clause whether engaged by the establishment as principal employer or through an intermediate employer in connection with any work incidental or otherwise and also includes trainees who are not apprentices. exception made is only in respect of armed forces and persons whose wages exceed a .....

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Feb 10 2015 (SC)

M/S Bennet Coleman and Co.Ltd. Vs. State of Bihar and Ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... the extent relevant, we shall extract part three, which reads as follows:- "part three chapter 1 recommendation of the wage boards for working journalists and non- journalist newspaper employees (other than newspaper employees in new agency) section 1 preliminary short title and commencement.- (1) these recommendations may be called the manisana (wage ..... board shall, by notice published in such manner as it thinks fit, call upon newspaper establishments and working journalists and other persons interested in the fixation or revision of rates of wages of working journalists to make such representations as they may think fit as respects the rates of wages which may ..... which has been violated so as to make them liable for prosecution. the wage board under the working journalists and other newspaper employees (conditions of service) and miscellaneous provisions act, 1955 (for short, 'working journalists act'), has only given their recommendations as per section 10 and under section 12, the same .....

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Apr 18 1963 (SC)

The Management of Express Newspapers Ltd. Vs. B. Somayajulu and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1964SC279; [1963(7)FLR246]; (1963)IILLJ385SC; [1964]3SCR100

..... earlier years of their professional career, income from the practice of their own profession. but it would not, on that account, be correct to classify them as working journalists, so long as their professed avocation is other than journalism.' it would be noticed that the expression 'professed avocation' has not been adopted by the legislature instead, it has used the words 'principal avocation ..... presumption would be that their full time employment is their principal avocation and no question of comparing their income from journalism with income from other sources can arise. in fact, the status of such full time journalists as working journalists will not be affected even if in some cases the income received by them from such employment may be found to be less than .....

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May 31 1974 (HC)

The Management of Statesman Ltd., New Delhi Vs. Lt. Governor, Delhi an ...

Court : Delhi

Reported in : 11(1975)DLT204; 1975LabIC543; (1975)IILLJ33Del

..... workman under lndustrnal disputes act, he needed a larger number of workmen from amongst other trade unions to espouse his cause. the finding, i have returned, is that the respondent no. 3 is a working journalist governed by the journalists act and he is not a workman within the meaning of industrial disputes act ..... to working journalists is indicated by sub-section 2 of section 3 and other provisions of the act but subject to them the industrial disputes act mutates and mutants applies to the working journalists. it is, thereforee, not necessary to decide whether they are ..... extent as they apply to, or in relation to, workman defined in industrial disputes act.' consequently the working journalists are fully entitled to take advantage of the provisions 'of the industrial disputes act like any other workman without their being labelled workman as such. the modification of the industrial disputes act in its application .....

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Dec 12 1996 (HC)

M/S. Colcom Plastic Ltd. and Others Vs. Union of India and Others

Court : Delhi

Reported in : (1997)ILLJ1230Del

..... . the case of the petitioner/employer before the supreme court was that section 17 provides only for a mode of recovery of any money due to a working journalist and it does not empower the state government or authorities specified by the state government to act as a forum for adjudicating upon the merits of the disputed ..... an employer under a settlement, award or under the provisions of chapter v-a/v-b. 33. the decision of the supreme court in bombay union of journalists and others v. the state of bombay and another : (1964)illj351sc though concerns the power of the government to prima facie consider the merits of dispute while taking ..... be the province of industrial tribunal. the decision of the supreme court in punjab land development and reclamation corporation ltd. v. presiding officer, labour court, chandigarh and others : (1990)iillj70sc , where the main question was regarding the interpretation of section 2(oo) does not help us in the present case for deciding the question regarding .....

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Aug 10 1982 (HC)

Munilal Vs. Sarvaieet

Court : Rajasthan

Reported in : AIR1984Raj22; 1982()WLN756

..... nature usually called as preliminary issue or that the tribunal does or does not consider it necessary to try the remaining issues.the same conclusion also follows from the other provisions of the said chapter iii of the act some of which are hereinafter mentioned. section 86(4) gives the election commission the power to fill a vacancy ..... the same parties, or between parties under whomthey or any of them claim litigating under the same title where such suit is pending in the same or any other court in india having jurisdiction to grant the relief claimed, or in any court beyond the limits of india established or continued by the central government and having ..... while staying the proceedings under section 10, c.p.c. the appellate court acted without jurisdiction in imposing any condition regarding payment of arrears of rent. on the other hand, learned counsel for the landlord non-petitioner contends that the proceedings in the ap-peal could not have been staved at all as the trial of the suit .....

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Apr 21 1989 (HC)

Nava Bharat Vs. Nagpur Union of Working Journalists and ors.

Court : Mumbai

Reported in : (1991)ILLJ591Bom

..... accredited to a state government, correspondent accredited to the central government other than a special correspondent. iii. reporter, sub-editor, correspondent news photographer, calligraphist, artists, librarians and index assistants and all working journalists other than those mentioned under any other group unless placed higher by the establishment. iv. proof reader ..... the act no. xxix of 1958. 19. similar is the case in respect of the recommendations of the wage board for working journalists under the working journalists and other newspaper employees (conditions of service) and miscellaneous provisions act, 1955 (no. xlv of 1955). section 9 thereof empowers the central ..... recommendations will have to be examined with reference to the relevant provisions as contained in the wroking journalists (fixation of rates of wages) act, 1958 (no. xxix of 1958) and the working journalists and other newspaper employees (conditions of service) and miscellaneous provisions act, 1955 (no. xlv of 1955). .....

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Oct 26 2005 (HC)

Hindustan Times Ltd. Vs. Ashok Vyas

Court : Gujarat

Reported in : (2006)2GLR1213

..... 1947 (hereinafter referred to as the i.d.act), especially when the respondent plaintiff is a workman within the meaning of section 2(f) of the the working journalist & other newspaper employees (condition of service) and miscellaneous provisions act, 1955 (hereinafter referred to as the act for short). the relevant provisions of the act on which ..... him, functions mainly of a managerial nature;section 2(c) of the act reads as under:-2(c) newspaper employee means any working journalist, and includes any other person employed to do any work in or in relation to any newspaper establishment.section 3(1) of the act reads as under:-3(1) the provisions of the ..... but it emerges from record that he was not simply a correspondent but was also discharging many other duties being a main person in the state h.q. at gandhinagar. the definition of working journalist covers large categories of the persons working with a newspaper and the plaintiff does not fall in the category of exceptions made in clause .....

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Apr 21 1989 (HC)

Nava Bharat Vs. Nagpur Union of Working Journalists and Others

Court : Mumbai

Reported in : 1989(3)BomCR81; (1991)ILLJ591Bom

..... accredited to a state government, correspondent accredited to the central government other than a special correspondent. iii. reporter, sub-editor, correspondent news photographer, calligraphist, artists, librarians and index assistants and all working journalists other than those mentioned under any other group unless placed higher by the establishment. iv. proof reader.' ..... of the act no. xxix of 1958.19. similar is the case in respect of the recommendations of the wage board of working journalists under the working journalists and other newspaper employees (conditions of service) and miscellaneous provisions act, 1955 (no. xlv of 1955). section 9 thereof empowers the ..... the recommendations will have to be examined with reference to the relevant provisions as contained in the working journalists(fixation of rates of wages) act, 1958 (no. xxix of 1958) and the working journalists and other newspaper employees (conditions of service) and miscellaneous provisions act, 1955 (no. xlv of 1955).18 .....

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