ISLAMABAD – Chief Justice Saqib Nisar has issued a final warning to mediahouses till December 15 over non payment of salaries to workers.
CJP on Friday warned that the apex court will take action against the mediahouses that have still not paid salaries to their employees, if they didnot clear all dues soon.
While hearing a request filed by Tayyab Baloch, the president of PressAssociation of Supreme Court, Justice Nisar said the court will take actionagainst media houses — that have not paid their employees — under theRevenue Recovery Act and suggested the companies’ lawyers to read it.
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Pervez Shaukat, who was representing media employees along with Baloch,told the court that the media workers did not have money to pay theirchildren’s school fee because they had not received their salaries. Heclaimed that the media houses had received billions to speak against thejudiciary.
