Siddharth Roy Kapur is grateful to the High Court for their fair verdict

The current President of Film and Television Producers Guild of India, Siddharth Roy Kapur, is grateful towards the High Court for passing a fair judgement with regards to the existing strike of the Federation of Western India Cine Employees. The ongoing strike by the FWICE also known as the Film Industry Workers’ Union against the Film and Television Producers Guild of India, had obstructed the production work of the same.

It was decided by The Film and Television Producers Guild of India to seek help from the High Court for the issues that they had been facing. The court passed a judgement in favour of the Film and Television Producers Guild of India and announced the members of Federation of Western India Cine Employees must not threaten members or non-members of its association from voluntarily working with the producers. The Film and Television Producers Guild of India had acquired an interim order from the court that prevents the FWICE and its members from sending threats to the members or non-members of its association from working with the producers voluntarily. (Also Read: Vidya Balan: Siddharth was the only man I could imagine getting married to)

Siddharth Roy Kapur, president of the Film and Television Producers Guild of India, said, “We are pleased with this fair verdict. It is unfortunate, but unavoidable, that we have had to exercise our legal options to ensure the safety and security of those film and television workers who are gladly willing to continue working with us, despite the arbitrary strike call given by the FWICE.”

For those who came late, the workers union had called for an indefinite strike on August 9 so as to protest against the producers association stating that the IFTPC had backtracked on its earlier promise of a wage hike. Siddharth Roy Kapur further said, “There should be complete freedom between producers and workers to decide on commercial terms, one that suits both parties. We should focus on facilitating a healthy and safe environment for our employees rather than impose arbitrary decisions which hamper the well-being of the industry, and ultimately impact the workers that we are supposed to protect.”

The decision has indeed come as a relief to both the IFTPC and the workers who are employed on the set on daily wages.

Prajakta Ajgaonkar

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