I’ll just mention a just a few reasons why Indian working journalists and non-working journalists deserve a 'massive hike’, as the newspaper and employers may called it.
1. Employers make millions of profits. While the big media houses are owned by the rich they treated their employers as if they are still living in the pre-independent era. It is time all newspapers stopped the ‘contract systems’ and go for the ‘permanent system’ of employment. Employers talk of ‘freedom of speech’ and media being the fourth pillar of democracy. Why is it then shying away from giving their staff a hike and a well-deserved status.
2. Stiff hike in advertisement rates must be proportional to staff salary. Every year there has been an increase in advertisement tariff. The full front page advertisement rate is not less than Rs 30 lakh just for a single day! Even if the cost of publication has gone up, the ad revenue of a single front page can easily make up a month’s salary of all the employees in a single organization.
3. Rising cost of living. Employers know that diesel and petrol prices have gone up and the same burden is also experienced by their staff who are the pillars of their organisation. If journalists and non-working journalists are given just some Rs 20,000 how can they lead a decent life. The meager sum they received will only encouraged them to seek extra work which will not be productive for the media house.
I’ll write again on the same issue in the coming days why journalists and non-working journalists deserved better pay packages.
If you are a journalist or employer and want to write your views on the issue, mail it to indian6009@gmail.com
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Afraid that it will have to pay revised wages to its staffers, the management of 'Free Press Journal' has taken to sacking the employees who were on contract or voucher payment. Govt should intervene and attach the property of Free Press Journal whose owner has grabbed the prime land in Nariman Point in the name of freedom of press!
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