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EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK IS TO APPLY FOR ALL EMPLOYEES By: Parmanand Pandey   ‘Equal pay for equal work’ is the underlying principle of the constitution of India as enshrined in Articles 14 and 39(d). Although our constitution came into force some 66 years ago yet the equality is elusive and the discrimination continues in many fields. In certain areas women are still paid less than their male counterparts. The example of temporary employees is even more glaring because they are paid less than regular employees even in the government sectors, not to say of the private sectors. This inequality is continuing despite catena of decisions of the Supreme Court that there can be no discrimination between two sets similarly placed employees and doing same work regardless of being temporary or permanent.  Recent judgment of the Supreme Court in  ‘State of Punjab vs Jagjit Singh’  has further reinforced this principle of ‘equal pay for equal work’.  The bench of Justice Jagdish Sin

  Adultery law treats women as chattel and lowers their dignity     Parmanand Pandey                   Section 497 of the IPC deals with adultery and it is considered to be a cruelty by the husband on the wife but not the vice versa. Thus, it is not based on gender equality. However, Supreme Court and other High Courts are now crystallising the adultery cases by pronouncing that to have the extra marital cannot termed to cruelty. Let us first see what section 497 says,  "Whoever has sexual intercourse with a person who is and whom he knows or has reason to believe to be the wife of another man, without the consent or connivance of that man, such sexual intercourse not amounting to the offence of rape, is guilty of the offence of adultery, and shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to five years or with fine or with both. In such case the wife shall not be punishable as an abettor."         Conscientious people have be

EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK IS TO APPLY FOR ALL EMPLOYEES By: Parmanand Pandey   ‘Equal pay for equal work’ is the underlying principle of the constitution of India as enshrined in Articles 14 and 39(d). Although our constitution came into force some 66 years ago yet the equality is elusive and the discrimination continues in many fields. In certain areas women are still paid less than their male counterparts. The example of temporary employees is even more glaring because they are paid less than regular employees even in the government sectors, not to say of the private sectors. This inequality is continuing despite catena of decisions of the Supreme Court that there can be no discrimination between two sets similarly placed employees and doing same work regardless of being temporary or permanent. Recent judgment of the Supreme Court in  ‘State of Punjab vs Jagjit Singh’  has further reinforced this principle of ‘equal pay for equal work’.  The bench of Justice Jagdish Sing