Prevention of Sexual Harassment OF Women @ Workplace (POSH)
The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, aims at protecting women from sexual harassment in workplaces, prevention and redressal of such issues and incidents related to it.
Sexual Harassment towards women is a distressing misdemeanor that violates the basic rights of an individual. The POSH Act 2013 has certain mandatory provisions for every employer to follow. If the Employer fails to
- Constitute an Internal Committee (IC) to handle complaints
- Take due action as per the Inquiry Report provided by the Internal Committee (IC) and
- Comply with the provisions of the Act
- Shall be punishable with a fine upto Rs. 50,000/-
- 2nd Offence – Twice the earlier punishment
- 3rd Offence – Trade Licence will be cancelled
At SStraight Circles, we provide comprehensive end to end services to ensure an Organization is not only compliant with the PoSH Act but best practice methodologies are also adopted to prevent incidents from happening within the Organization. Following are the services we provide
- External Member Services for the Internal Committee (IC) – All our External Members are trained, certified and experienced with providing External Member Services including handling PoSH complaints. Our services support Organizations pan India.
- Training and Sensitization – Being an inclusive Organization, our core values centre around zero tolerance towards any form of discrimination, harassment, violence and bullying irrespective of any Gender and hence Gender Sensitization is an essential pre-requisite for Employee Sessions and Conscious / Unconscious Biases is a pre-requisite for the Internal Committee Trainings. Duration of the Training sessions are
- Gender Sensitization & PoSH Awareness Session for Employees – 3 to 4 hours
- Conscious / Unconscious Bias & PoSH Training for Internal Committee (IC) – 6 to 8 hours
- Content Development and Digital Media – We also develop content, Communication and Posters to ensure compliance all year round
- Workplace Safety Campaigns – Our workplace safety campaigns ensure psychologically safe workplaces for all gender identities, zero tolerance to any form of workplace harassment and that the dialogue around workplace safety is all through the year.
