CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -International Equal Pay Day is celebrated on 18 September. In 2022, the Equal Pay International Coalition (EPIC) would like to use this occasion to highlight some of the pay transparency measures being implemented in different parts of the world, including various tools and responses to key questions.

Detailed explanation-2: -International Equal Pay Day, celebrated on 18 September, represents the longstanding efforts towards the achievement of equal pay for work of equal value. The symbolic day aims at highlighting issues related to the gender pay gap and raising worldwide awareness.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Equal Pay International Coalition (EPIC) is an international initiative led by the International Labour Organization (ILO), the UN Women and others. Its aim is to reduce gender pay gap and make equal pay for work of equal value a reality across all sectors in all countries.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1976, the Equal Remuneration Act was passed with the aim of providing equal remuneration to men and women workers and to prevent discrimination on the basis of gender in all matters relating to employment and employment opportunities.

Detailed explanation-5: -To prohibit discrimination on account of sex in the payment of wages by employers engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the “Equal Pay Act of 1963."