(i) On the first day of January in every year while this Agreement has effect, the monthly salary of every employee who has been employed at the same monthly salary in a salary range continuously for not less than six (6) months immediately preceding that date shall be raised to the next higher monthly salary in the salary range of the grade in which he is employed until he has reached the maximum monthly salary in the salary range of that grade.
CLAUSE 15 - ACTING ALLOWANCE
(i)(a) An employee who is required by the Company to act in the capacity of an editor of
an editorial desk shall be paid an acting allowance of RM145, for each day that he is
required to carry out such duties, subject to a maximum of RM1,500 per month. The
payment of this allowance shall preclude them from claiming payment for overtime
as mentioned in Clause 18.
(b) An employee who is required to act in the post specified in sub-clause (i)(a) above
shall be notified in writing by the Company.
(c) If in any case in which the employee carries out part of the duties of the post in
which he acts, the acting allowance shall be at a rate to be determined by the
Company at its discretion.
(ii) When an employee is requested by the Company to act in place of a person in a post
mentioned in Clause 3 (i) hereof and not in the category mentioned in sub-clause (i)(a)
herein, he shall be paid such acting allowance as may be determined by the Company in
its discretion.
(iii) When an employee is requested by the company to act as the Officer-in-Charge (OC)
of an editorial desk, he shall be paid an acting allowance of RM45 for each day that he
carries out such duties. For bargainable staff, this OC allowance shall not preclude them
from claiming overtime as per the conditions in Clause 18.
(iv) An employee who has acted in place of a person in a post specified in
Clause 3 (i) for 12 continuous months shall be promoted to that post if there is a
vacancy at the end of the 12- month period.
(v) For the purpose of this Clause, "working day" shall mean a day other than a weekly
day off duty or holiday to which an employee is entitled hereunder and the continuity
of working days shall be deemed not to be broken by such weekly day off duty or holiday.
CLAUSE 16 - WORKING HOURS AND DAYS OFF DUTY
(i) All employees shall be given two (2) clear days, or in the case of employees
rostered to work at night, two (2) clear nights off duty in each week.The Company
shall give reasonable notice to an employee of any change in his days or
nights off duty.
(ii) The Company shall maintain duty rosters covering periods of four weeks
at a time and such rosters shall be made on the basis of normal work days,
each of eight (8) hours per day inclusive of a meal break of one (1) hour,
or of two (2) weeks period, each of eighty (80)hours inclusive of
meal breaks. Such rosters shall be displayed five (5) days before the
expiry of the previous roster.
CLAUSE 17 - HOLIDAYS
(i) Every employee shall be entitled to paid holidays on all Federal and
respective State gazetted Public Holidays and on any Public Holiday extraordinarily
specified under the Holidays Act, 1951, as may fall during the time that he is employed.
Provided that if any paid holiday to which an employee is entitled under the
provisions of this Clause falls on his day(s) or night(s) off duty, the next following
working day shall be a paid holiday in substitution therefore.
(ii) All employees would be rostered off as his weekly rest day on a Press shutdown day.
CLAUSE 18 - EXTRA SHIFT, WORK ON PUBLIC HOLIDAYS AND DAYS OFF DUTY
(i) Notwithstanding the provisions of Clauses 16 and 17 hereof,
an employee may be required by the Company to work before the commencement
of the normal hours of work and/or beyond the conclusion of the normal hours
of work on his normal working day, on a public holiday and his days or
nights off duty;
Provided that no employee shall be compelled to work on the second day
or second night off duty.
(ii) An employee who works for and at the request of the Company:
(a) for four (4) hours and more before the commencement of
the normal hours of work and/or beyond the conclusion of
the normal hours of work on his normal working day,
shall be deemed to have worked an extra full shift;
(b) on a Public Holiday; or
(c) on his days or nights off duty; shall be paid an
allowance in addition to his monthly salary.
(iii) The rate of allowance of each extra full shift or for work on
each Public Holiday or each day's or night's work shall be as follows
and in accordance with Section 60D (3) of the Employment Act 1955,
whichever is the greater:
(a) RM117.00 for a Cadet Journalist, Cadet Photographer or a Cadet
Editorial Artist with M.C.E./S.P.M./H.S.C./S.T.P.M. qualifications.
(b) RM135.00 for Cadet Journalist and Cadet Photographer with Intermediate
qualifications, Journalist Grade 3, Photographer Grade 3 and
Editorial Artist Grade 3.
(c) RM147.00 for Photographer Grade 2 and Editorial Artist Grade 2.
(d) RM153.00 for Cadet Journalist and Cadet Photographer
with Degree qualifications, Journalist Grade 2, Photographer
Grade 1 and Editorial Artist Grade 1.
(e) RM160.00 for Journalist Grade 1, Photographer Special Grade
and Editorial Artist Special Grade.
(f) RM175.00 for Journalist Special Grade, Photographer
Superscale and Editorial Artist Superscale.
(g) RM180.00 for Journalist Superscale.
(iv) An employee who works for and at the request of the
Company for two (2) hours but less than four (4) hours before the
commencement of the normal hours of work and/or beyond the conclusion
of the normal hours of work on his normal working day shall be
paid an allowance at half the rate appropriate to his grade
as specified in sub-clause (iii) hereof.
CLAUSE 19 - NIGHT ALLOWANCE
Every employee who is required to commence a normal period of duty:
(a) Between the hours of 2.00 pm (inclusive) and before 6.00 pm - RM8.50
(b) From 6.00 pm onwards - RM16.75
shall be paid a night allowance at the rates specified above for each such complete period for which he works.
CLAUSE 20 - ADDITIONAL WORK
(i) The Company may from time to time offer an employee any additional
work outside the scope of his contract of service to be carried out for
additional remuneration and the employee may accept such offer at his discretion.
(ii) In the event that such additional work is carried out regularly
by such employee, the Company or the employee shall give reasonable notice to
discontinue such additional work.
CLAUSE 21 - STAFF CORRESPONDENT
(i) A staff correspondent, that is a journalist who has accepted
appointment as a staff correspondent to carry out journalistic duties
in specified places or districts shall be required to carry out his duties
on his days off duty as well as on his normal working days except while
on leave of absence explicitly granted after his application therefore.
The provisions of Clauses 16 and 18 hereof shall not apply to staff
correspondents, except for payment for work on Public Holidays with due
regards to the exchange of letter between the Company and the Union.
(ii) Every staff correspondent shall be paid a staff correspondent's
allowance of RM1,100.00 per month for so long as he is appointed as such.
(iii)Staff correspondents stationed in East Malaysia shall
be paid a Sabah/Sarawak allowance of RM1,375.00 per month.
(iv)Any employee other than staff correspondent who is transferred from Peninsular Malaysia to Sabah/Sarawak shall be paid a Sabah/Sarawak allowance of RM1,100 per month.
CLAUSE 22 - RACING CORRESPONDENT
(i) A racing correspondent, that is a journalist who has accepted appointment as a racing
correspondent to carry out journalistic duties in the various centres in Malaysia/Singapore
where horse races are held, shall be required to carry out his duties on his days off duty as
well as his normal working hours except while on leave of absence explicitly granted after
his application therefore and the provisions of Clauses 16 and 18 shall not apply to racing
correspondents.
(ii) Every racing correspondent shall be paid a racing correspondent's allowance
of RM750.00 per month for so long as he is appointed as such.
CLAUSE 23 - PAYMENTS FOR WORK ON NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE SUPPLEMENTS
(i) In this Clause:
"a newspaper or magazine supplement" means a portion or section of a newspaper or
magazine consisting of one or more pages which portion is compiled and produced on
a specific occasion and is not a regular feature of the newspaper or magazine;
"an editorial page" of a newspaper or magazine supplement means a page which is not wholly
devoted to advertisements;
"the process of sub-editing an editorial page" includes directly or indirectly
assigning reporters to write copy, editing the copy, preparing the page layout,
writing headings; sending the page layout, copy and headings for printing; consulting
the printer during the course of the printing process and making adjustments to layout
and copy, checking printers’ proofs and ordering corrections as necessary and checking
and passing final proofs.
(ii) (a) Any employee who works for and at the request of the Company when he is
off duty as sub-editor of an editorial page of a newspaper supplement shall be
paid a sum of RM72.00 for each such tabloid editorial page completely sub-edited
by him whether or not the page is eventually published. If an editorial page is
required to be completely re-made at any stage in the process of sub-editing it
after the page layout has been prepared and the headings have been written, the said
sum shall be increased to RM86.00 for a tabloid editorial page. An editorial page
shall be deemed to have been completely re-made if the disposition or content of
stories or articles in its column is changed other than by increasing or reducing
their lengths and to such extent that the page layout and headings have to be made afresh.
(b) In the event that work on an editorial page of a supplement is stopped for any
reason before the employee has completed the process of sub-editing, he shall be
paid a proportion of the said sum of RM72.00 or RM86.00 for a tabloid editorial
page.
(c) In the event that successive stages in the process of sub-editing an editorial page are carried out by different employees, they shall be paid a proportion of the said sum of RM72.00 or RM86.00 as the case may require, according to the stages at which they entered upon and discontinued the said process.
(d) For the purpose of calculating the proportionate payments referred to in this sub-clause, one half of the process of sub-editing an editorial page shall be deemed to have been completed when page layout, copy and headings have been sent for printing.
(iii) (a) Every employee who writes stories or articles for the editorial pages of newspaper supplements when he is off duty shall be paid at the rate set out in paragraph (b) of this sub-clause for each story or article or part thereof which is written, either:
(1) on the employee's own initiative and is published; or
(2) on assignment, that is to say, at the request of the Company, and is acceptable.
(b) (1) Payment for stories or articles written for the editorial pages of newspaper supplements shall be at the rate of RM0.25 per word of published text.
(2) Payment for photographs taken by an employee other than a photographer or cadet photographer, published in the editorial pages of newspaper supplements shall be as follows:
(a) Black / White prints - RM13.00
(b) Colour prints - RM23.00
(c) For the purpose of measuring the text of a published story or article, crossheadings in the text and headings shall not be measured. For an acceptable but unpublished story or article, it shall be deemed to have been set in the standard type size and be paid accordingly.
(iv) Any question as to the calculation or apportionment of any sum payable under this Clause or as to whether a story or an article is acceptable shall be decided by the Company at its discretion.
(v) Payment for stories or articles written for the editorial pages of non-English/non-Bahasa Malaysia language magazine supplements shall be at the rate of RM50.00 per thousand characters/words.
(vi) Work done under the provisions of this Clause shall not be compensated for under the provisions of Clause 18 of this Agreement.
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