e-News® | The NEWS Company…DHAKA, September 08, 2015 : President and general secretary of Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ), Altaf Mahmood and Kuddus Afrad, in a joint statement congratulated the government for announcing the Eighth Pay Scale for government employees and demanded that the Ninth Wage Board be awarded for journalists. They said that considering the enhanced cost of living the government had announced the Eighth Pay Scale which would benefit millions of people who worked for the government.
But they appealed to the government to announce the Ninth Wage Board for journalists on the same grounds. Besides, the declaration would further increase the disparity between government employees and non-government ones, they observed. They also appealed to the government to ensure that the Wage Boards were properly implemented by the employers.