Union Labour and Employment Minister Bandaru Dattatreya said the Centre has initiated steps to bring the electronic and digital media journalists too under the ambit of the Working Journalists Act.
The minister stated this at a press conference in Kochi yesterday in reply to reporters’ questions on steps taken by the Narendra Modi government to bring the electronic media journalists too under the purview of the Act.
He said, if necessary, the BJP-led NDA government would amend the Working Journalists Act. Dattatreya has also said the government has taken steps at the Labour Ministry level to ensure stringent enforcement of the labour laws and implementation of Wageboard recommendations in the newspaper industry.
