{"id":16905,"date":"2013-12-31T15:40:14","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T15:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/2013\/12\/31\/madras-high-court-order\/"},"modified":"2013-12-31T15:40:14","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T15:40:14","slug":"madras-high-court-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/madras-high-court-order\/","title":{"rendered":"DUJ welcomes Madras High Court Order on New Generation TV journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \tThis is perhaps the first time in Indian journalism history that a broadcast media organisation has been forced by a court order from laying off or forcing a pay-cut on employees. In a joint statement of DUJ President Sujata Madhok and General Secretary S.K.Pande said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> \t&ldquo;A single judge-bench led by justice KBK Vasuki of the Madras High Court has restrained the Chennai-based media house &#8211; New Generation Media Corporation from either retrenching staff or effecting a proposed 50 percent pay cut from January 1st, 2014. The judge issued notices to both the company and the Tamil Nadu government on a petition jointly filed by nearly 80 percent of the employees of the English News division&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p> \tDUJ congratulates the struggling staff and recognizes the significance of this&nbsp; order. We hope that this could finally start the process of protecting&nbsp; TV employees of rights denied to them&nbsp; It expresses solidarity with their counterparts in Delhi also.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"> \t<strong>PRESS RELEASE<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> \tThis is perhaps the first time in Indian journalism history that a broadcast media organisation has been forced by a court order from laying off or forcing a pay-cut on employees. In a joint statement of DUJ President Sujata Madhok and General Secretary S.K.Pande said&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-print"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}