Working Journalist and Other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1955
This Act defines the working Journalists, non Working Journalists and Other Newspaper Establishments and it provisions for their service conditions like fixation of wages and payment of gratuity, taking into conditions like fixation of wages and payment
of gratuity, taking into consideration, the special conditions under which the working Journalists amd Non- Working Journalists are required to work.
In the Stare of Maharashtra there are about 153 Newspaper establishments. These Newspaper establishments employ about 2694 Working Journalist and about 6702 Non- Working Journalists employees.