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Sexual harassment at the workplace is a concern across industries. It imposes a range of costs that impact individuals, including the aggrieved perso ...
Tips for Prevention of Sexual Harassment at Workplace
Right to a safe working environment is a fundamental right. Every person entering the work force, irrespective of their educational background or des ...
Can you claim sexual harassment when mixing work and pleasure?
Mixing work and pleasure is a situation that can become complicated when it comes to sexual harassment. The line between consensual behavior and sexu ...
Investigation report of Sexual harassment allegations against Governor Andrew M. Cuomo (New York)
Andrew Cuomo, the former governor of New York, had been accused of sexual harassment by multiple women starting in December 2020, when Lindsey B ...
Calcutta High Court on Application of POSH & POCSO Laws in case of complaints filed by Students
The Calcutta High Court on 24th January 2022 in the matter of PKN vs. Union of India and others held that POSH Act applies even if a c ...
FAQs related to Annual Report of the Internal Committee
FAQs related to Annual Report of the Internal Committee Filing related queries 1 Is submission of Annual Report by Inte ...
District Officer (DO) Address
List of District Officer (DO) Address The addresses of DO and WCD offices of few cities - Mumbai, Bangalore, Noida, and Gurgaon - are mentioned be ...
A third of employees in Australia’s federal parliament have been sexually harassed
A third of employees in Australia's federal parliament has been sexually harassed, states a report on the Independent Review into Commonwealth Parlia ...
Importance Of Service Rules When Dealing With POSH Act
The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act and Rules, 2013 (“POSH Law”), though stringent in its efforts ...
Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019 and POSH Act: A comparison
The Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in its 2014 judgement of NALSA v. Union of India expounded the reading of Article 21 of the Constitution of India ...
Guidelines issued by Bombay High Court on POSH Matters: Legal Analysis
On 24th September 2021, in the case of P vs. A & Ors., (“Order”) the Bombay High Court held that in the interest of protecting parties against di ...
Sexual Harassment & Self-Destructing Messages: Challenges & Evidence
Self-Destructing Messages / Apps or ephemeral messages are those messages which “disappear” once the recipient of such message has seen or read the m ...
Dissemination of POSH policy in the Virtual Workspace
With the overnight overhaul of the physical workplace for a virtual workspace, many workplace practices have had to be re-imagined and adjusted. One ...
Mumbai Police sets up Nirbhaya Squad
As per Circular No. 7 (S. No./C.P/Reader/Circular/241/2021 - Circular on Nirbhaya Squad and Project “Saksham”) dated 14th September 2021 of Governmen ...
Tarun Tejpal and the case of victim blaming
"She did not look disturbed, reserved, terrified or traumatised in any way even though this was immediately after she claims to have been sexually as ...
Is Section 509 of the IPC a Meaningful Provision in Current Times?
Section 509 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) is a bailable offence defined as: “Word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman.— ...
World Breastfeeding Week – August 1 to 7
The concept of breastfeeding week was formulated way back in the year 1990 by World Health Organisation (WHO) along with United Nations International ...
Microaggressions: Sexual Harassment Subtleties in the Workplace
Imagine a workplace, if you will, with a diverse workforce. It may be similar to yours, people of different castes, creed, religions, ages, genders e ...
Sexual Harassment in Healthcare System
During the COVID-19 pandemic, when people were fighting to avail healthcare services necessary to sustain their lives from accessing labs for RTPCR t ...
Judicial precedents leading to the implementation of POSH Act
Farley coined the phrase “sexual harassment of women on the job” in 1975 to describe the patterns of workplace behavior. It took India 38 years to re ...
What to do when facing sexual harassment while accessing healthcare services
You may have come across instances in the news of patients, attendants and those trying to access health care services being sexually harassed. What ...
