https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=188544 Men and women employees doing the same or substantially similar work are entitled to equal remuneration under Article 39(d) and the Equal Remuneration Act, 1976. On a practical comparison of actual duties, confidential lady stenographers were treated as performing work materially indistinguishable from male stenographers, so attachment to senior executives and confidential functions did not justify lower pay. The Act prevails over any inconsistent settlement or pay arrangement, and the proviso to section 4(3) could not be used to sustain sex-based disparity in fitment within a common scale. Financial difficulty was not accepted as a defence to unequal remuneration. en-us Thu, 26 Mar 1987 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 27 Apr 2018 18:14:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=188544 Men and women employees doing the same or substantially similar work are entitled to equal remuneration under Article 39(d) and the Equal Remuneration Act, 1976. On a practical comparison of actual duties, confidential lady stenographers were treated as performing work materially indistinguishable from male stenographers, so attachment to senior executives and confidential functions did not justify lower pay. The Act prevails over any inconsistent settlement or pay arrangement, and the proviso to section 4(3) could not be used to sustain sex-based disparity in fitment within a common scale. Financial difficulty was not accepted as a defence to unequal remuneration. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 26 Mar 1987 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=188544