Company Law : From Compliance To Culture: Redefining POSH Governance In Modern Corporate Era A Governance-Centric Analysis of Workplace Safety, ...
Corporate Law : Highlights that failure to act on workplace harassment complaints may be treated as abetment, attracting criminal consequences. Th...
Corporate Law : Emphasizes that organizations must shift from policy-based compliance to building a culture of safety rooted in accountability and...
Corporate Law : The POSH Act’s hybrid appeal structure often confuses litigants due to the absence of a defined appellate authority. Understandi...
Corporate Law : This article explains how Internal Committees under the POSH Act should handle harassment complaints, including evidence collectio...
Corporate Law : The Supreme Court ruled that ICCs can inquire into complaints against employees from different departments, ensuring procedural pr...
Corporate Law : The Supreme Court of India has issued strict, time-bound orders for all states to implement the PoSH Act by forming Local and Inte...
Corporate Law : Directions are given by the Hon'ble Supreme Court right from Visakato Aureliano Fernandez Vs. State of Goa and others in respect o...
Corporate Law : Supreme Court held that Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 mandates that in...
Corporate Law : Karnataka High Court held that the appellate authority under POSH Act, 2013, despite the absence of specific provision for grantin...
Company Law : The ROC Chennai imposes a penalty on Janaki Ram Steel & Power Ltd. for non-compliance with Section 134 of the Companies Act, 2013....
Company Law : Explore the MCA decision to reduce penalties for non-reporting related to the Internal Committee under POSH guidelines. Learn abou...
Company Law : Tunwal E-Vehicle India Pvt. Ltd. & its directors ordered to pay penalty for not maintaining its registered office under Companies ...
Company Law : Resonance Eduventures Limited, its MD & CEO, and CS face a penalty of 7 Lakhs imposed by Ministry of Corporate Affairs for not con...
Company Law : As per Rule 8 and 8A of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014 other than one person Company or small company shall give a statement...
Research performed among the working women in India concluded that a woman endured an event of harassment every 42 minutes. This amounts to the maximum with an average of 34 incidents a day and 240 events per week and also a surprising 1028 events within a month. It is an alarming range to affect as […]
Note on Prevention of Sexual Harassment of Women At Workplace ((Prevention, Prohibition And Redressal) Act, 2013 (Posh Act) BACKGROUND: The Act to prevent incidents of sexual harassment at workplace was enacted after 16 years of the Supreme Court judgment in the case of Vishaka & Ors. vs. State of Rajasthan & Ors. (1997 (7) SCC […]
The accused Srilankan Airlines was convicted for the offence u/s 26 of Sexual Harassment for Women at work place (Prevention, Prohibtion and Redressal Act) 2013 as the accused had violated Section 4 (1) of Sexual Harassment of Women (Prevention Prohibition and Redressal Act) 2013.
Dr. Malabika Bhattacharjee Vs Internal Complaints Committe, Vivekananda College & Ors. (Calcutta High Court) A cursory glance at Section 2(m) of the posh 2013 Act shows that the term ‘respondent’ brings within its fold ‘a person’, thereby including persons of all genders. Although there is substance in the submission of the petitioner that the said […]
Bhuwan Chandra Pandey vs Union Of India And Others (Uttarakhand High Court) More than two decades have elapsed since the Supreme Court passed a landmark judgment in case of Vishakha vs. State of Rajasthan AIR 1997 SC 301, and formulate the famous ‘Vishakha guidelines‘, which inter alia providing guidance for the resolution of complaints through internal […]
If you are unaware of ‘POSH’ (Prevention of sexual Harassment at workplace) and its implications on your company for non-compliance, then beware, you are inviting trouble to your doorstep!
Covid 19, Extended Lockdown, Economic impact of the lockdown, recovery path, these are the current topics of on which we are being flooded with riveting discussions and articles . But , in spite of the grave pandemic scenario in the world, there is still coverage on the unpalatable topic of sexual harassment of women. The […]
Many women at the word level experienced sexual harassment in the workplace, yet the majority of these incidents go unreported, making it difficult to get an accurate count of how pervasive the problem truly is. In the recent past, we saw the #MeToo movement in India as well. The year 2018 saw the rise of […]
