Salient practices, organizations must consider
Background
With the objective of creating safe spaces free of sexual
harassment in the workplace, the Sexual Harassment of Women at
Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013
("Act") brought into force the
requirement of having a constructive complaint redressal mechanism
for women.
The objective of the Act is to prevent sexual harassment of
women at workplaces. It is aimed to protect a
'complainant,' who has been the recipient of any act of
sexual harassment in the workplace. This does not necessarily mean
only women who are employees but any woman who has been sexually
harassed at a particular workplace can have recourse under the Act.
The only requirement to enforce applicability of the Act is that
the sexual harassment should have occurred at the workplace. Also,
owing to the current pandemic, most of the working population is
working remotely, therefore organizations need to be mindful
