Friday, March 27, was the very bad day for those working for DawnNews as the organization has laid off 76 of its people across the country including Karachi.
The Secretary of the Karachi Press Club, Mr. A.H. Khanzada is among those laid off by the DawnNews TV channel. Many of the journalists had received the termination letter by courier in the morning. They felt the way they were laid off humiliating.
The ruthless action by the DawnNews management has spread the wave of anger among the journalists.
It is not the first time that the owners of the news organization have carried out the “economic murder” of journalists. A little bit earlier, many journalists have been laid off by AAJ TV, Geo TV, daily Al-Sharq and the daily Aaj-kal.
A couple of day, 30 newsmen, laid off by the Aaj-kal, staged a protest demonstration over the economic murder of newsmen. They asked the government to intervene.
The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists and Karachi Union of Journalists have not issued any statement on this issue so far.
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Sunday, March 29, 2009
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The management took the plea that the organisation was over staffed. If it is true, the next action should be taken against the HR department as to why they had appointed people more than the actual strength and why they had not intimated the owners or policy makers of the organisation. It is the utter failure of the HR department and the people in the HR should also be sacked.
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