law: Equal Remuneration Act, 1976
  2. Definitions 
  In this Act, unless the context otherwise
  
  requires- 
  (a) "appropriate government" means- 
  (i) in relation to any
  
  employment carried on by or under the authority of the central Government or a
  
  railway administration, or in relation to a banking company, a mine, oil-field
  
  or major port or any corporation established by or under a Central Act, the
  
  Central Government, and
  (ii) in relation to
  
  any other employment, the State Government;
  (b) "commencement of this Act"
  
  means, in relation to an establishment or employment, the date on which this
  
  Act comes into force in respect of that establishment or employment;
  (c) "employer" has the meaning
  
  assigned to it in clause (f) of section 2 of the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972
  
  (39 of 1972);
  (d) "man" and "woman"
  
  means male and female human beings, respectively, of any age;
  (e) "notification" means a
  
  notification published in the Official Gazette;
  (f) "prescribed" means prescribed by
  
  rules made under this Act;
  (g) "remuneration" means the basic
  
  wage or salary, and any additional emoluments whatsoever payable, either in
  
  cash or in kind, to a person employed in respect of employment or work done in
  
  such employment, if the terms of the contract of employment, express or
  
  implied, were fulfilled;
  (h) "same work or work of a similar
  
  nature" means work in respect of which the skill, effort and
  
  responsibility required are the same, when performed under similar working conditions,
  
  by a man or a woman and the differences, if any, between the skill, effort and
  
  responsibility required of a man and those required to a woman are not of
  
  practical importance in relation to the terms and conditions of employment;
  (i) "worker" means a worker in any
  
  establishment or employment in respect of which this Act has come into force;
  (j) words and expressions used in this Act and
  
  not defined but defined in the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of 1947),
  
  shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in that Act.