law: Working Journalists and Other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955
  2.Definitions. -
  In this Act, unless the context otherwise
  
  requires-
  1[(a) "Board" means--
  (i)In relation to
  
  working journalists, the Wage Board constituted under Sec. 9 ; and
  (ii)In relation to
  
  non-journalist newspaper employees, the Wage Board constituted under Sec.
  
  13-C;]
  (b)"Newspaper" means any printed periodical
  
  work containing public news or comments on public news and includes such other
  
  class of printed periodical work as may, from time to time, be notified in this
  
  behalf by the Central Government in the official Gazette;
  (c)"Newspaper employee" means any working
  
  journalist, and includes any other person employed to do any work in or in
  
  relation to any newspaper establishment;
  (d)"Newspaper establishment" means an
  
  establishment under the control of any person or body of persons, whether
  
  incorporated or not, for the production or publication of one or more newspaper
  
  or for conducting any news agency or syndicate: 2[and includes newspaper
  
  establishments specified as one establishment under the Schedule.
  Explanation. - For the purposes of
  
  this clause,-
  (a)Different departments, branches and centers
  
  of newspaper establishments shall be treated as parts thereof;
  (b)A printing press shall be deemed to be a
  
  newspaper establishment if the principal business thereof is to print
  
  newspaper.)
  3(dd)"non-journalist newspaper employee" means
  
  a person employed to do any work in, or in relation 'to, any newspaper
  
  establishment, but does not include any such person who-
  (i)Is a working journalist,
  
  or
  (ii)Is employed mainly
  
  in a managerial or administrative capacity, or
  (iii)Being employed in
  
  a supervisory capacity, performs, either by the nature of the duties attached
  
  to his office or by reason of the powers vested in him, functions mainly of a
  
  managerial nature;
  (e)"Prescribed" means
  
  prescribed by rules made under this Act;
  4[(ee)Tribunal means,
  
  -
  (i)In relation to
  
  working journalists, the Tribunal constituted under Sec. 13-AA; and
  (ii)In relation to
  
  non-journalist newspaper employees, the Tribunal constituted under Sec. 13-DD;]
  
  
  5(eee) "Wages" means
  
  all remuneration capable of being expressed in terms of money, which would, if
  
  the terms of employment, expressed or implied, were fulfilled, be payable to a
  
  newspaper employee in respect of his employment or of work done in such
  
  employment, and includes
  (i)Such allowances
  
  (including dearness allowance) as the newspaper employee is for the time being
  
  entitled to;
  (ii)The value of any
  
  house accommodation, or of supply of light, water, medical attendance or other
  
  amenity or of any service or of any concessional supply of food grains or other
  
  articles.
  (iii)Any traveling
  
  concession, but does not include-
  (a)Any
  
  bonus;
  (b)Any contribution paid
  
  or payable by the employer to any pension fund or provident fund or for the
  
  benefit of the newspaper employee under any law for the time being in force
  (c)Any
  
  gratuity payable on the termination of his service.
  Explanation- In this clause, the term
  
  "wages" shall also include new allowances, if any, of any description fixed
  
  from time to time.]
  (f)"Working Journalist" 
  
  means a person whose principal avocation is that of a journalist and 6[who is 
  
  employed as such, either whole-time or part-time, in, or in relation to, one or 
  
  more newspaper establishment], and includes an editor. a leader writer, news- 
  
  editor, sub-editor, feature-writer, copy-tester, reporter, correspondent, 
  
  cartoonist, news-photographer and proof-reader, but does not include any such 
  
  person who- 
  (i)Is employed mainly
  
  in a managerial or administrative capacity; or
  (ii)Being employed in
  
  a supervisory capacity, performs, either  by the nature of the
  
  duties attached to his office or by reason of the powers vested in him,
  
  functions mainly of a managerial nature-, (g) all words and expressions used
  
  but not defined in this Act and deemed in the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947
  
  (XIV of 1947), shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in that
  
  Act.
  1.Subs. by
  
  Act 60 of 1974, Sec. 3.
  2. Ins. by
  
  Act 31 of 1989, Sec. 2.
  3.Ins. by
  
  Act 60 of 1974, Sec. 3.
  4.Ins. by
  
  Act 6 of 1979, Sec. 2 (w. e. f. 3 1st January, 19 79).
  5.Ins. by
  
  Act 31 of 1989, Sec. 2.
  6.Subs. by
  
  Act 36 of 1981 (w.e.f. 13th August, 1981).