law: Equal Remuneration Act, 1976
  7. Power of appropriate government to appoint
  
  authorities for hearing and deciding claims and complaints 
  (1) The appropriate government may, by
  
  notification, appoint such officers, not below the rank of a labor officer, as
  
  it thinks fit to be the authorities for the purpose of hearing and deciding- 
  (a) complaints with
  
  regard to the contravention of any provision of this Act;
  (b) claims arising out
  
  of non-payment of wages at equal rates to men and women workers for the same
  
  work or work of a similar nature;
  and may, by the same or subsequent
  
  notification, define the local limits within which each such authority shall
  
  exercise its jurisdiction.
  (2) Every complaint or claim referred to in
  
  sub-section (1) shall be made in such manner as may be prescribed.
  (3) If any question arises as to whether two
  
  or more works are of the same nature or of a similar nature, it shall be
  
  decided by the authority appointed under sub-section (1).
  (4) Where a complaint or claim is made to the
  
  authority appointed under sub-section (1) it may, after giving the applicant
  
  and the employer an opportunity of being heard, and after such inquiry as it
  
  may consider necessary, direct- 
  (i) in the case of a
  
  claim arising out of non-payment of wages at equal rates to men and women
  
  workers for the same work or work of a similar nature, that payment be made to
  
  the worker of the amount by which the wages payable to him exceed the amount
  
  actually paid;
  (ii) in the case of
  
  complaint, that adequate steps be taken by the employer so as to ensure that
  
  there is no contravention of any provision of this Act.
  (5) Every authority appointed under
  
  sub-section (1) shall have all the powers of a Civil Court under the Code of
  
  Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), for the purpose of taking evidence and of
  
  enforcing the attendance of witnesses and compelling the production of
  
  documents, and every such authority shall be deemed to be a civil court for all
  
  the purposes of section 195 and Chapter XXVI of the Code of Criminal Procedure,
  
  1973 (2 of 1974).
  (6) Any employer or worker aggrieved by any
  
  order may be an authority appointed under sub-section (1), on a complaint or
  
  claim may, within thirty days from the date of the order, prefer an appeal to
  
  such authority as the appropriate government may, by notification, specify in
  
  this behalf, and that authority may, after hearing the appeal, conform, modify
  
  or reverse the order appealed against and no further appeal shall lie against
  
  the order made by such authority.
  (7) The authority referred to in sub-section
  
  (6) may, if it is satisfied that the appellant was prevented by sufficient
  
  cause from preferring the appeal within the period specified in sub-section (6),
  
  allow the appeal to be preferred within a further period of thirty days not
  
  thereafter.
  (8) The provisions of sub-section (1) of
  
  section 33C of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of 1947), shall apply for
  
  the recovery of monies due from an employer arising out of the decision of an
  
  authority appointed under this section.