New Delhi, May 29: Wage Boards for Journalists and Non-Journalists will be constituted "very soon", Union Labour Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said today.
This assurance was given by Rao to a delegation of Indian Journalists Union (IJU), which met him, to press for their demands, including the setting up of new wage boards for the newspaper industry employees.
Admitting that the constitution of the wage boards was long pending , the Minister told the delegation that "the exercise for setting up of the Wage Boards has already begun," according to an IJU release.
The delegation also sought the Minister's intervention in doing away with the contract system of employment in the newspaper industry.
Rao promised a meeting in this regard will be convened soon, the release added.
The IJU delegation consisted of its President Suresh Akhouri, Secretary General K Srinivas Reddy, Secretary Madan Singh and Working Newscameramen Association President S N Sinha.
