Wage board: SC refuses to intervene on report

Additional Solicitor General Parag Tripathi had drawn the attention of the Bench about the letter.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to intervene on the Majithia Wage Boards recommendations for journalists and non-journalists,saying the Cabinet is seized of the matter.

Propriety demands that when the matter is before the Union Cabinet,we should not pass any order. However,any decision taken by the Union Cabinet will be subject to the final orders passed by this court, a Bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Dipak Misra said.

The Bench made the observation following repeated pleas of various newspaper managements to restrain the Union Cabinet from taking any decision on the wage board recommendations on the ground that the matter is pending before the apex court.

The Bench took serious note of newspaper managements letter to the Union Labour Secretary asking him not to take any decision on the recommendations till the matter was decided by the apex court.

Additional Solicitor General Parag Tripathi had drawn the attention of the Bench about the letter.

It is very,very unfair on your part to write such a letter, said the Bench,prompting senior counsel Fali Nariman and K K Venugopal for newspaper managements to immediately withdraw it.