Wage board award review body under consideration

The government will actively consider forming a review committee for reappraisal of the just-declared Sixth Wage Board Award for the newspaper industry, if there be an application on behalf of journalists, press workers and employees.
" The review committee will be formed comprising newspaper owners, journalists, press workers and other staff members," said an official handout yesterday, in the wake of protests against some provisions for the pay package.
The government announced the Sixth Wage Board Award on December 6, fixing salaries, allowances and other benefits for the journalists, press workers and employees.
But Sangbadik-Sramik-Karmachari Oikya Parishad (SSKOP) has already rejected the Wage Board Award and observed a four-hour work abstention on Wednesday, demanding its immediate revision.
Addressing a gathering in front of the National Press Club, the parishad leaders urged the government to accept the demands by December 16, failing which the SSKOP would go for work abstention and form human chain on the street from December 17. They also threatened to launch a "greater movement".