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The attack on the workers are increasing both by the government and the employers. Even at the time of the UPA Government and especially after the NDA government has taken over, the MNCs and other employers are putting much pressure to ‘liberalise’ / ‘reform’ the labour laws meaning that the employers should be given right to violate the laws and go on ‘hire and fire’ system.
The latest in this series is the demand of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI)to the government to abolish the Wage Board Act for news paper publishers. The reason is quite clear. During the last two/three decades, continuous struggles have been conducted by the newspaper employees to implement the Wage Board decisions, which the newspaper barons have been resisting. Now the latter and the FICCI feel that it is the correct time to get the Wage Board Act abolished.
Such a proposal is going to start serious agitation from the news paper employees and their organisations.
VAN Namboodiri's Blog 
The big newspaper houses lost the case in the Supreme Court of India. Now they are approaching the government to abolish Working Journalists Act. They are not implementing wage boards award and appointing people on contract.
The journalists are being fired at the whim of the managements. They are exploited by the media owners. The Assam Tribune management where I dedicatedly worked for lasr 28 years as Assistant Editor, terminated my job without giving me a chance to defend myself by a simple notice citing some irrevalent allegations.
Thank you for the information. We fully support the demands of the journalists.