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Equal Remuneration Act, 1976

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AJAY MALIKversusSTATE OF UTTARAKHAND & ANR.

2025 INSC 118Appeal(s) allowed

The case arose from FIR No. 60/2017 alleging wrongful confinement, trafficking and conspiracy against Ajay Malik for employing a tribal domestic worker. Malik sought quashing of the criminal proceedings and compounding of the offences, supported by a no‑objection affidavit from the complainant, …

AIR INDIA CABIN CREW ASSN. & ORS.versusUNION OF INDIA & ORS.

2011 INSC 808Dismissed

The Air India Cabin Crew Association challenged the management’s revised promotion policy and the government’s 2003 directive that equalised the retirement and flying ages of male Flight Pursers and female Air Hostesses. The petitioners argued that these changes violated earlier bilateral …

A.K. BEHERAversusUNION OF INDIA & ANR.

2010 INSC 278Dismissed

The petitioners challenged several amendments made by the Administrative Tribunals (Amendment) Act, 2006, including the abolition of the Vice‑Chairman post, the new qualification criteria for Administrative Members, the ten‑year total tenure limit (s.10A), differential service conditions for members …

U.P. STATE SUGAR CORPORATION LTD. AND ANR.versusSANT RAJ SINGH & ORS.

2006 INSC 335Appeal(s) allowed

The case concerned a supervisory‑B employee of a sugar mill who, after the mill was nationalised under the Uttar Pradesh Sugar Undertakings (Acquisition) Act, 1971, sought to be placed in the corporation’s higher pay scale that was being paid to two other employees – one whose higher pay was …

AIR INDIA CABIN CREW ASSOCIATIONversusYESHAWINEE MERCHANT AND ORS.

2003 INSC 309Appeal(s) allowed

The dispute concerned the retirement age and service conditions of air hostesses employed by Air India and Indian Airlines, who under various agreements were required to retire from flying duties at age 50 (later 45/50) with the option of ground duties up to age 58, while male cabin crew could serve …

SITA DEVI & ORS. ETC. ETC.versusSTATE OF HARYANA & ORS.

1996 INSC 933Dismissed

The petitioners, non‑matriculate instructors in Haryana's Adult Literacy Programme, claimed that they performed the same duties as matriculate instructors and therefore deserved the same pay scale, invoking the doctrine of "equal pay for equal work" under Article 14. They sought regularisation, back …

UNION OF LNDIA AND ORS.versusDHARMA PAL AND ORS. ETC.

1996 INSC 466Disposed off

The case concerned the regularisation and remuneration of approximately 3,647 daily‑wage/casual workers employed by the Chandigarh Administration. The Central Administrative Tribunal had directed that these workers be paid full Dearness Allowance (DA), House Rent Allowance (HRA) and City …

STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH AND ANR.versusPRAMOD BHARTIYA AND ORS.

1992 INSC 268Appeal(s) allowed

The State of Madhya Pradesh appealed against an order of the Madhya Pradesh Administrative Tribunal that had directed equalisation of pay scales between lecturers in Government Higher Secondary Schools and non‑technical lecturers in Technical Schools. The respondents, lecturers in Higher Secondary …

MACKINNON MACKENZIE & CO. LTD.versusAUDREY DCOSTA & ANR.

1987 INSC 81Dismissed

The case concerned a female confidential stenographer, Audrey D’Costa, who claimed that after the Equal Remuneration Act, 1976 came into force she was paid lower wages than male stenographers performing the same or similar work. The employer, Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co., argued that the business was …

PEOPLE'S UNION FOR DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS AND OTHERSversusUNION OF INDIA & OTHERS

1982 INSC 67Case Allowed

The People's Union for Democratic Rights filed a public‑interest writ petition alleging that contractors engaged in the construction of Asian Games projects in Delhi were violating multiple labour statutes, including the Minimum Wages Act, Equal Remuneration Act, Contract Labour (Regulation and …

AIR INDJA ETC. ETC.versusNERGESH MEERZA & ORS. ETC. ETC.

1981 INSC 152Case Partly allowed

The Supreme Court examined the constitutionality of Air India Employees Service Regulations 46 and 47, which mandated retirement of air hostesses (AHs) at age 35, on marriage within four years of service, or on first pregnancy, and allowed the Managing Director to extend service up to age 45. The …