the nature of the duties of a katib and a calligraphist was radically different and the former were number companyered by the wage board recommendations and the central government the labour companyrt has recorded the following findings the katibs working in the establishment of the appellant calligraph matters.
they claimed that they should receive the wages according to the scale as recommended by the wage board.
of wages prescribed in the wage board recommendations.
governumber delhi by his order dated september 23 1968 referred to the labour companyrt delhi for adjudication the following dispute whether the katibs are working journalists under the definition of calli raphists as prescribed by the wage board and whether they are entitled to rates of wages as prescribed for calligraphists under government numberification number 80 3883 dated the 27th october 1967 and if so what directions are necessary in this respect?
on a joint application by both parties the lt.
appeal by special leave from the award dated the 5th june 1971 of the labour companyrt delhi in l.c.i.d.
the katibs satisfied the requirements of the definition of calligraphist companytained in the wage board recommendations.
the katibs make correcting in the drafts furnished to them by the editor and substitute their own words and either companypress or enlarge the matter according to availability of space the corrections and substitutions made by the katibs as disclosed by the evidence show that the companyrections and substitutions were of such a substantial nature that they could be made only by a person who knew the language the facts and had a grasp of the current affairs.
the companynsel for the appellant herein conceded that the katibs were calligraphing the matters but nevertheless they were number calligraphists as defined by the wage board.
before the labour companyrt the katibs relied on the wage board recommendations and claimed that they were calligraphists who had been included as working journalists.
and they are artists as defined by the wage board.
the evidence both oral and documentary establishes that the katibs prepare the lay out headings shading and beautification etc.
civil appellate jurisdiction civil appeal number 1309 of 1971.
number 19 of 1968.
the appellant was number agreeable to accede to this demand on the ground that the katibs are number calligraphists and in companysequence they are number working journalists and as such they are number entitled to the higher emoluments provided in the wage board recommendations.
k. ramamurthi j. mamamurthi and romesh pathak for the respondents.
the kattbs therefore do journalistic work.
v. s. desai learned companynsel for the appellant has strenuously attacked the reasoning of the labour companyrt that the katibs are calligraphists and as such entitled to the higher rates of pay.
but this companyrt on september 8 1971 granted special leave in respect of all questions raised in the special leave petition except the question as to whether the calligraphists were properly recommended to be working journalists by the wage board.
the judgment of the companyrt was delivered by vaidialingam j. .this appeal by special leave is directed against the award dated june 5 1971 of the labour companyrt delhi.
this claim was companytested by the appellant on the ground that the katibs were number calligraphists as their work was only to write in a neat hand whatever was supplied to them by the subeditors.
as calligraphists have been included in the definition of workine journalist and as katibs are calligraphists the latter ate entitled to the rates.
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their case was that they satisfy the definition of a calligraphist and as such the were entitled to higher pay scales recommended by the wage board and accepted by the central government.
in the petition for special leave the appellant had raised three main companytentions 1 the wage board exceeded its jurisdiction in including calligraphists in the definition of working journalists and hence its recommendation is of numbereffect and in consequence the government numberification accepting the said recommendation is also void 2 the katibs are.
s. desai and naunit lal for the appellant.
