As per the agreement, Anuj Arora has received a cheque of Rs 1,7472.55 after deducting 15 percent tax (TDS) as per the rules out of the total Rs 2,055.94 lakhs due to him as per the Labor Court's decision.
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The publisher of the English daily 'The Himalayan Times', International Media Network Nepal Pvt. Ltd., has entered into an agreement with former news editor Anuj Arora, implementing the Labor Court's decision.
The management, which was under pressure due to the freezing of bank accounts and share transactions after disobeying the court's order, reached an agreement at the Labor and Employment Office, Teku on Friday (8 Jestha) and handed over a check for the remaining outstanding amount.
A written agreement was reached between the petitioner Anuj Arora and the Chief Operating Officer (COO) Prabhashankar Srivastava on behalf of the opposing organization in the presence of a representative of the Labor and Employment Office.
According to the agreement, the remaining amount has been paid after deducting 15 percent tax (TDS) as per the rules out of the total amount of Rs 20 lakh 555 94 paisa that Arora is entitled to as per the Labor Court's decision. On behalf of the organization, COO Srivastava handed over a check of Nepal Investment Bank Limited for Rs 1.7 million 472.55 paisa to Arora.
What was the background to the dispute?
The company had cut Arora's salary by 50 percent from Chaitra 2076 to Mangsir 2079 citing the Covid-19 pandemic and then did not pay him for a long time.
On Mangsir 21, 2082, the Labor Court ruled in favor of Arora, who had gone into legal battle after not receiving his salary, and ordered him to pay more than Rs 2 million. However, the company had delayed implementing the decision and approached the Supreme Court. Although a bench of Supreme Court Justices Sapana Pradhan Malla and Balkrishna Dhakal refused to issue an interim order and cleared the way, the company had stopped the payment on the pretext that the 'case was pending'.
After the decision was not implemented for more than a year, the Labor and Employment Office, as a last resort, wrote to the Nepal Rastra Bank and the Office of the Registrar of Companies on April 21, freezing the company's bank account. After all commercial transactions came to a standstill, the company was finally forced to pay the wages by bringing Aurora to an agreement.
