Anti-Sexual Harassment Law – Applicable?

Concepts such as 'Happy Workplace', 'work-life balance', 'gender neutral workplaces' are often touted amongst companies globally. Unfortunately, this does not necessarily translate into better compliance with mandatory employment law requirements. In fact, despite the growing public awareness and indignation against sexual harassment at the workplace, several businesses in India continue to turn a blind eye to the requirements of the new anti-sexual harassment law in India. It is not uncommon to hear senior management discuss how their company has hardly any or no female employees and that therefore the law does apply to them or how they have never had complaints of sexual harassment and why invite trouble where none exists.