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Equal remuneration and non-discrimination in compensation are important aspects of employment law and workplace governance in India. The Code on Wages, 2019 (“Code”) establishes a statutory framework prohibiting gender-based discrimination in wages for employees performing the same work or work of a similar nature for the same employer. It also prohibits discrimination on the ground of sex in recruitment and conditions of employment for the same or similar work, subject to restrictions imposed by law.

The recent sexual harassment allegations emerging from a prominent IT company in Nashik have triggered widespread concerns across corporate India and reignited a nationwide conversation around workplace safety, accountability and effective implementation of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 also known as the POSH Act.