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(a) It shall be an unfair labor practice for an employer to discriminate between men and women with regard to fringe benefits.\n(b) It shall be an unfair labor practice for an employer to condition the benefits available to his employees, their spouses or dependents, to employees who are heads of families or who receive higher wages, since these conditions are not related to their yield on the job, which is a violation of the provisions of this chapter.\n(c) It shall be an unfair labor practice for an employer to grant benefits to the wives and dependents of male workers, when these benefits are not granted to the husbands and dependents of female workers; to grant benefits to the wives of male workers when said benefits are not granted to the husbands of female workers; to grant benefits to the husbands of female workers when said benefits are not available for the wives of male workers.\n(d) It shall not be a defense under the provisions of this chapter, when an employer is accused of discrimination with regard to fringe benefits on account of sex, that the costs of said benefits are higher for one sex than the other.\n(e) It shall be an unfair labor practice for an employer to

of discrimination with regard to fringe benefits on account of sex, that the costs of said benefits are higher for one sex than the other.\n(e) It shall be an unfair labor practice for an employer to implement a retirement or pension system which establishes different optional or compulsory retirement ages based on sex or which establishes differences in benefits based on sex.\nHistory —July 6, 1985, No. 69, p. 236, § 13.