The Equal Remuneration Act, 1976

Preamble

THE EQUAL REMUNERATION ACT, 1976 ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY SECTIONS 1. Short title, extent and commencement. 2. Definitions. 3. Act to have overriding effect. CHAPTER II PAYMENT OF REMUNERATION AT EQUAL RATES TO MEN AND WOMEN WORKERS AND OTHER MATTERS 4. Duty of employer to pay equal remuneration to men and women workers for same work or work of a similar nature. 5. No discrimination to be made while recruiting men and women workers. 6. Advisory Committee. 7. Power of appropriate Government to appoint authorities for hearing and deciding claims and complaints. MISCELLANEOUS 8. Duty of employers to maintain registers. 9. Inspectors. 10. Penalties. 11. Offences by companies. 12. Cognizance and trial of offences. 13. Power to make rules. 14. Power of Central Government to give directions. 15. Act not to apply in certain special cases. 16. Power to make declaration. 17. Power to remove difficulties. 18. Repeal and saving. THE EQUAL REMUNERATION ACT, 1976 ACT NO. 25 OF 1976 [11th February, 1976.] An Act to provide for the payment of equal remuneration to men and women workers and for the prevention of discrimination, on the ground of sex, against women in the matter of employment and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Twenty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows: CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY

Sections

Type to filter. 17 sections.

1. 1Short title, extent and commencement
2. 2Definitions
3. 3Act to have overriding effect
4. 4
5. 5No discrimination to be made while recruiting men and women workers
6. 6Advisory Committee
7. 7
8. 8Duty of employers to maintain registers
9. 9Inspectors
10. 10Penalties
11. 11Offences by companies
12. 11AComposition of offences
13. 13Power to make rules
14. 14Power of Central Government to give directions
15. 16Power to make declaration
16. 17Power to remove difficulties
17. 18Repeal and saving