(1) No employer shall pay to any worker, employed by him in an establishment or employment, remuneration, whether payable in cash or in kind, at rates less favourable than those at which remuneration is paid by him to the workers of the opposite sex in such establishment or employment for performing the same work or work of a similar nature.
(2) No employer shall, for the purpose of complying with the provisions of sub-section (1), reduce the rate of remuneration of any worker.
(3) Where in an establishment or employment the rates of remuneration payable before the commencement of this Ordinance for men and women workers for the same work or work of a similar nature are different only on ground of sex, then the higher (in cases where there tere only two rates), or, as the case may be, the highest (in cases where there are more than two rates) of such rates shall be the rate at which remuneration shall be payable, on and from such commencement, to such men and women workers:
Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall be deemed to entitle a worker to the revision of the rate of remuneration payable to him or her with reference to the, service rendered by him or her before the commencement of this Ordinance.
Duty of employer to pay equal emoluments to men and women workers for same work or work of a similar nature.
5. On and from the commencement of this Ordinance, no employer shall, while making recruitment for the same work or work of a similar nature, make any discrimination against women except where the employment of women in such work is prohibited or restricted by or under any law for the time being in force:
Provided that the provisions of this sub-section shall not affect any priority or reservation for scheduled castes or scheduled tribes, exservicemen, retrenched employees or any other class or category of persons in the matter of recruitment to the posts in an establishment or employment.
No discrimination to be made while recruiting men and women workers.