The ‘Media Workers (Conditions of Employment) Bill - 2022’ has been raised in Parliament with the provision of payment of salary within the first seven working days of the month.
The pay period of the media person is not more than one month, the salary must be paid within the seven working days of the next month.
On Monday (March 28), Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud presented the bill in Parliament and sent it to Parliament for a report within 60 days and sent to Parliament for the Information and Broadcasting of the Parliamentary Status Committee.
The bill also states that the minimum wage board will be formed every five years, and the board will be set up for the separate salary structure for the media, the news agency, private television, radio and registered online medium.
The bill also states that workers engaged in various activities in the media, including full-time journalists, employees and registered newspapers owned by registered newspapers, will be called ‘media workers’.
The bill has three categories of media workers, which are - astirtic or social, apprentice and stable.
The bill also said that the media person has to work at least 48 hours a week. If he wants to work more than that, he has to pay more (over time) allowance.
Earlier, media workers used to work on ‘The News Paper Employments’ Conditions) The purview of the Act- 1974. Some of the labor laws were in conflict with the Labor Act, which was then defined as the workers and defined as workers. If this bill is passed, the media workers will no longer be workers, they will be called media workers.
‘Jobs of journalists, press workers and press employees under the ’The Newspaper Employment‘ Act Conditions, financial poisons and other facilities were determined. The government repealed the Act and enacted the ’Labor Act' for all workers in 2006, which would include the poison of journalists, press workers and press workers.
The Cabinet approved the bill in 2018. The proposed law states that a media worker will receive 15 days of casual leave a year, and he will receive one day as earned leave every 11 days. If you do not enjoy this leave, it will be deposited and you will get the benefit of maximum 100 days of cash at the end of the service.
The bill also states that a media worker can enjoy a one-time or more than 10-day festival holiday in full pay, and if working on a festival day, two days of basic pay or two days of alternative leave will be granted for each working day.
The bill also provides for the formation of ‘Mashyamkarmakar Kalyan Samiti’ to develop the relationship between media workers and owners in every institution.
The proposed law states that the government can set up a media court for one or more departments, which will include one chairman and two members, who will be the chairman of the working district judges, and one of the members will be the media owner, the other is a media worker.
The proposed law states that the media courts will follow the summary judicial procedures described in the criminal proceedings, which are also the powers assigned to the First Class Judicial Magistrate or Metropolitan Magistrate.
If a media owner does not give maternity welfare benefits to a female worker, the owner has been asked to pay a penalty of Tk 25,000. If the minimum salary is paid less than the minimum salary, the provision of one year imprisonment or five years imprisonment has been kept. And if any media worker gives false information to the court, he will be fined 50 thousand rupees, and he will be jailed for three months.
On the other hand, if the media owner makes a false statement, he will be fined up to five lakh taka or three months imprisonment. If the owner behaves otherwise, he will be fined 50 thousand taka or in jail for six months.
The bill states that if a media worker dies for one year, his chosen person or heir is employed for more than six months or more than six months of the worker. 30 days as compensation and 45 days salary due to working or working accident.
The bill also states that if a media organization wants to lay off additional workers, the government should be informed in writing in writing immediately. If the worker is required to lay off, the employee will have to pay a month's written notice, or one month's basic salary, and also as compensation. 30 days basic salary should be paid for.
A permanent media worker can resign from service with 30 days notice and 15 days notice.
