Journalists challenging The Hindu's arbitrary computation of dearness allowance win as the Madras High Court rules in their favour. The management's stonewalling hasn't - it now has pay arrears to journalists running into lakhs. Let them figure out the moral of the story😂
Hasn't helped
Some who challenged the management's wanton disregard for norms were even sacked during the pandemic. This is a great victory for those souls who resisted this brazen assault, against a management which simply refused to listen to pleas for reason by its employees.
Several of us, including me, wrote several letters to members of the senior management of this media company, but whose lords never ever responded to the repeated pleas for reason. Even a rookie law graduate with a basic understanding of statutory obligations of employers would
have advised them that their "computation" of DA would be a brazen affront to any understanding of index numbers. Yet these barons insisted on brazenly flouting norms.
Those who shout loudest about their commitment to core values and cardinal principles of journalism and to ethics are usually the first to shortchange their employees.
@threadreaderapp pl unroll
Correction: it's the Labour Court, not the Madras High Court.
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