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The labour department has initiated proceedings against 203 contractors and outsourcing agencies in Noida for violating the Contract Labour Act, including withholding wages and overtime pay. These agencies face blacklisting and licence suspension, with orders to disburse Rs 1.16 crore owed to workers. The probe followed a violent industrial protest.

Gautam Budh Nagar police have identified Pakistan-based social media accounts spreading misinformation to incite labour unrest. These accounts allegedly fabricated reports of worker deaths during protests on April 13, leading to renewed tensions. Investigations are ongoing to identify further links and individuals involved in the foreign-backed campaign.

Following violent protests, the Uttar Pradesh government has announced an interim daily wage hike of up to 21% for workers, effective April 1, 2026. This decision, based on a high-power committee's recommendation, aims to balance worker demands with industrial needs while ensuring an investment-friendly environment. A final wage hike will be announced next month.

UP government has warned labour contractors and outsourcing agencies in Noida and Greater Noida that they face blacklisting and license cancellation if workers they deploy are involved in violence. This follows recent industrial protests that turned violent. The government also announced a 21% increase in minimum monthly wages for workers, effective April 1, to address grievances.

Uttar Pradesh government has approved a significant interim hike of approximately 21% in minimum wages for workers in Gautam Buddh Nagar and Ghaziabad, effective April 1. This decision follows widespread factory worker protests. New monthly wages for unskilled, semi-skilled, and skilled workers in these regions have been revised, with the CM urging employers to ensure fair practices and benefits.

Revised rates effective from April 1,separate slabs for districts

New Delhi, Jul 21 () The Centre today reviewed status of implementation of the Majithia wage board award for working journalists and non-journalists with representatives of state governments here.

Supreme Court on Tuesday is slated to hear the challenge to the recommendations of the latest wage board.

The Delhi government on Friday decided to appoint a special officer to supervise the implementation of Justice G R Majithia wage board for journalists and other employees of print news organizations.

The writ petition submits that The Working Journalists and Other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955, be declared illegal, null and void and ultra vires the Constitution of India.

A textile workers association has asked the Centre to constitute a national level wage board for workers in the sector saying such boards in a number of segments had proved helpful.

NEW DELHI: A committee is being set up to monitor full and effective implementation of Manisana wage board's recommendations for journalists and non-journalists of newspapers and news agencies.

The Union Cabinet approved the recommendations of the Majithia wage board providing for an increase in the salaries and allowances of journalists and non-journalists.

Union minister Venkaiah Naidu has asked Information and Broadcasting secretary Ajay Mittal to examine print media newspapers' concerns about the possible impact of the latest wage board recommendations and increased taxes under the Goods and Services Regime.

The Indian Newspaper Society (INS) has warned that many newspapers will have to shut down if the recommendations of the Justice Majithia wage board report are accepted.

Union minister for labour and employment Bandaru Dattatreya on Wednesday said a tripartite meeting between the management of media houses, representatives of journalist unions and labour ministry will soon be held.

The government has appointed Justice K Narayana Kurup as chairman of the wage boards for working and non-working journalists.

A bench of Chief Justice P Sathasivam and Justices Ranjan Gogoi and S K Singh rejected challenges to the wage board recommendations and asked newspapers and news agencies to pay the wage arrears in four equal installments within one year and "continue to pay revised wages from April 2014 onwards”.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has approved the constitution of wage board for working journalists, fulfilling their long-standing demand.

NEW DELHI: Labour ministry is understood to have favoured abolition of the methodology of wage boards for the newspaper industry and suggested bilateral wage negotiations.

The BJP leadership at the Centre has projected itself as being pro-business and industry-friendly.

The govt has targeted only the print industry with the obvious intention of influencing it and subsequently crippling it.

The society also appealed to the government to desist from constituting any more wage boards for journalists and non-journalists as no other industry has such a practice.

The MP high court issued notices to all the respondents seeking response to the petition filed by a college teacher stating that after she moved high court to claim sixth wage board pay scale benefits, the college management served her a notice of dismissal from service.

R Lakshmipathy, publisher of Tamil daily Dinamalar, was elected chairman of the board of directors of Press Trust of India after the company's Annual General Meeting in New Delhi on Monday.

The Minimum Wages Board constituted by the Punjab government is still in the process of revising minimum wages.

Patna High Court orders Bihar government to pay Rs 10 lakh as cost of appointing chair of state monitoring committee without any legal basis, causes filing of "fortuitous litigations." Division bench of justices PB Bajanthari and Arun Kumar Jha while dismissing an intracourt appeal of one Bijay Kumar Singh also directs the state respondents to deposit the cost in the Prime Minister Relief Fund within two weeks. Appellant's claim for payment of remunerations in lieu of his services rendered as chairman of the state monitoring committee manisana wage board for a period between march 2007 to april 2017 was also rejected by the court.

"I will write a strong letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for constitution of a new wage board to help journalists and other employees of media organisations run their households properly in the light of price rise," Lalu Prasad said.

RJD president Lalu Prasad and Union Minister Ramvilas Paswan on Saturday favoured the constitution of a new wage board for journalists and other employees of media organisations in the wake of seventh Pay Commission for government employees.