Equal Re­mu­ner­a­tion Act 1976

Most important mcq points on Equal Re­mu­ner­a­tion Act 1976 


1. The Equal Re­mu­ner­a­tion Act ex­tends to Whole of In­dia.


2.  The Equal Re­mu­ner­a­tion Act was en­acted by the Par­lia­ment of In­dia to give ef­fect to Ar­ti­cle 39 con­sti­tu­tional pro­vi­sions.


3. Equal pay for equal work for both men and women is a  Di­rec­tive Prin­ci­ples of State Pol­icy.


4. Sec­tion 2(a) of the Equal Re­mu­ner­a­tion Act de­fines 'Ap­pro­pri­ate Gov­ern­ment'.


5. As per Sec­tion 2(a) of  Equal Re­mu­ner­a­tion Act, in re­la­tion to a bank­ing com­pany, the ap­pro­pri­ate gov­ern­ment means Cen­tral Gov­ern­ment. 


7.  Sec­tion 2(h) of the Equal Re­mu­ner­a­tion Act de­fines 'same work or wok of sim­i­lar na­ture'.


8.  Sec­tion 4 of the Equal Re­mu­ner­a­tion Act  says about duty of em­ployer to pay equal re­mu­ner­a­tion to men and women work­ers for same work or work of sim­i­lar na­ture.


9.  Sec­tion 7 of the Equal Re­mu­ner­a­tion Act em­pow­ers ap­pro­pri­ate Gov­ern­ment to ap­point au­thor­i­ties for hear­ing and de­cid­ing claims and com­plaints.


10. If any em­ployer omits or fails to carry out nay di­rec­tion made by the ap­pro­pri­ate Gov­ern­ment un­der this Act,  he/she shall be pun­ish­able with

(a) ei­ther fine
(b) or im­pris­on­ment 
(c) both fine and im­pris­on­ment 
(d) All the above

 An­swer - (d)     


11. “No dis­crim­i­na­tion to be made while re­cruit­ing men and women work­ers” is given un­der Equal Re­mu­ner­a­tion Act leg­is­la­tions.


12. Un­der the Equal Re­mu­ner­a­tion Act, 1976 re­mu­ner­a­tion means Ba­sic wage and emol­u­ments what so ever payable.


13. It is duty of every Em­ployer to main­tain reg­is­ters and other doc­u­ments in re­la­tion to the work­ers em­ployed by him in the pre­scribed man­ner. 


14. Un­der the act, the Gov­ern­ment will ap­point such of­fi­cers, not be­low the rank of Labour Of­fi­cer for the pur­pose of hear­ing and de­cid­ing com­plaints with re­gard to the con­tra­ven­tion of any pro­vi­sion of the Act 


15.  One-Half shall be the pro­por­tion of Women amongst the mem­bers ap­pointed in the Ad­vi­sory Com­mit­tee formed un­der The Equal Re­mu­ner­a­tion Act, 1976.


16.  10 shall be the min­i­mum num­ber of per­sons to be ap­pointed in Ad­vi­sory Com­mit­tee un­der the pro­vi­sions of the Equal Re­mu­ner­a­tion Act, 1976.


17.  Ap­pro­pri­ate Gov­ern­ment shall nom­i­nate the mem­bers of Ad­vi­sory Com­mit­tee formed un­der this Act.


18.  The prin­ci­ple of equal pay for equal work is con­tained in Ar­ti­cle 39 Ar­ti­cle of the In­dian Con­sti­tu­tion.


19. The pro­vi­sions of Equal Re­mu­ner­a­tion Act have been ex­tended to All cat­e­gories of em­ploy­ment.


20. Sec­tion 2(g) of the Equal Re­mu­ner­a­tion Act de­fines 'Re­mu­ner­a­tion'.