New Delhi, September 27: A journalist sacked on disciplinary grounds can be deprived of gratuity even if he or she has not caused any damage/loss to the company’s property, the Supreme Court has ruled.
The apex court said that unlike the Payment of Gratuity Act of 1972, under which it is essential to prove that the employee has caused destruction/damage of property, there is no such requirement under the Working Journalists Act in order to deny the journalist of such benefit.
“All that is required under the Working Journalists Act is that the termination should be as a punishment inflicted by way of disciplinary action, which is the position in the case at hand
–Agencies