Islamabad: Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists has taken strong notice of the massive retrenchment of media persons from TV channels like Dawn News, News One, Channel 5, Aaj, Geo, Samaa and print media Aaj Kal, Daily Jinnah Khabrian, Post, Alsharq and Pakistan Observer.
PFUJ has decided to hold countrywide protest rallies on Tuesday 7th April, while a main protest rally will be organized from PFUJ Secretariat to National Press Club Islamabad.
PFUJ has received a number of complaints from all major cities from media persons which have pointed out that their services have been terminated with out any rim and reason on false pretext of “financial constraints”.
The PFUJ claim that such complaints received from TV channels Dawn News, News One, Channel 5, Aaj, Geo, Samaa and print media Aaj Kal, Daily Jinnah Khabrian, Post, Alsharq and Pakistan Observer.
The effected contended that their services have been dispensed abruptly against the provisions of Newspaper Employees Service Conditions Act, Labor laws, ILO convention and natural justice. The employees were also of the view that in the wake of price hike and squeezed opportunities of employment, the media management decision of throwing away of services of their employees is nothing but only a unilateral and arbitrary act as well as against all the norms of justice.
PFUJ is taking serious note of such developments claim that media house are already violating the law of land and constantly depriving their employees from fringe benefits and pay scales as granted under 7th wage award which is already in operation for last many years yet the same has not been implemented by media managers. Instead of fulfilling of legal obligations to implement the decision of wage board award and throat the government move to constitute 8th wage board award, the media manager staging a drama of so called financial crisis and resorted a massive retrenchment which act is even cruel.
PFUJ has urged all NGOS, Civil Society, Human Rights activists, newspaper workers to take firm stand against all such illegal acts and support justice cause of right of live and economic right of media men. The PFUJ also decided to move to International Federation of Journalists and other journalists’ organizations to support the cause of Pakistani media persons and condemn the act of retrenchment.
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Shamasul Islam Naz
Secretary General, PFUJ
Muhammad Farouk
Project Coordinator
IFJ Project Office in Pakistan:
PFUJ Secretariat, 12 – Nazim ud Din Road, F-6/1, Islamabad.
Mob: +92-321-5203360
Tel: +92-51-2870220-1
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