Act Number: 25

Act Name: The Equal Remuneration Act, 1976

Year: 1976

Enactment Date: 1976-02-11

Long Title: 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.

Ministry: Ministry of Labour and Employment

Department:

Section 16: Power to make declaration.
    Where the appropriate Government is, on a consideration of all the circumstances of the case, satisfied that the differences in regard to the remuneration, or a particular species of remuneration, of men and women workers in any establishment or employment is based on a factor other than sex, it may, by notification, make a declaration to that effect, and any act of the employer attributable to such a difference shall not be deemed to be a contravention of any provision of this Act.
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