Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Ins. by Act 60 of 1974, s. 3. 4 (iii) being employed in a supervisory capacity, performs, either by the nature of the duties attached to his office or by reason of the powers vested in him, functions mainly of a managerial nature;] (e) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act; 1[(ee) “Tribunal” means,— (i) in relation to working journalists, the Tribunal constituted under section 13AA; and (ii) in relation to non-journalist newspaper employees, the Tribunal constituted under section 13DD;] 2[(eee) “wages” means all remuneration capable of being expressed in terms of money, which would, if the terms of employment, expressed or implied, were fulfilled, be payable to a newspaper employee in respect of his employment or of work done in such employment, and includes— (i) such allowances (including dearness allowance) as the newspaper employee is for the time being entitled to; (ii) the value of any house accommodation, or of supply of light, water, medical attendance or other amenity or of any service or of any concessional supply of food-grains or other articles; (iii) any travelling concession, but does not include— (a) any bonus; (b) any contribution paid or payable by the employer to any pension fund or provident fund or for the benefit of the newspaper employee under any law for the time being in force; (c) any gratuity payable on the termination of his service. Explanation.—In this clause, the term “wages” shall also include new allowances, if any, of any description fixed from time to time.] (f) “working journalist” means a person whose principal avocation is that of a journalist and 3[who is employed as such, either whole-time or part-time, in, or in relation to, one or more newspaper establishments], and includes an editor, a leader-writer, news-editor, sub-editor, feature- writer, copy-tester, reporter, correspondent, cartoonist, news photographer and proof-reader, but does not include any such person who— (i) is employed mainly in a managerial or administrative capacity, or (ii) being employed in a supervisory capacity, performs, either by the nature of the duties attached to his office or by reason of the powers vested in him, functions mainly of a managerial nature; (g) all words and expressions used but not defined in this Act and defined in the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of 1947) shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in that Act. CHAPTER II WORKING JOURNALISTS