To increase productivity and to retain employees use POSH

Over the past decades, the workplace has become a much more diverse space. With increasing representation of women to the total workforce, India aspires to create gender equality among its working population. It has thus become imperative to ensure that women are safe at the workplace. While physical safety and security of women is an important aspect, corporates are serious about addressing women’s concerns about sexual harassment at workplace.

The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 has been a watershed in the history of India’s attempt to ensure a safe and conducive working environment for women. The Act not only puts in place necessary mechanisms for the safety and security of working women, but also provides the much needed fillip and direction to the efforts of corporate India to ensure an unbiased and gender neutral working atmosphere. In the recent past, there has been a marked improvement in the approach of the management in bringing down cases of sexual harassment at workplace by setting up necessary preventive mechanisms and internal complaints committee (ICC).

My lecture/workshop on POSH was an attempt to spread awareness about its applicability and make employees (Teaching & Non teaching staff members) feel empowered at SRM University.

In my whole lecture I emphasized upon how an 'aggrieved woman' can lodge complaint in ICC/LCC. Further, the employer's duties to make the whole system being compliant of POSH and train their employees for the same. Also, suggested various recommendations in order to implement it at grassroot level.

If the institution is POSH-Compliant it has been surveyed tha the productivity went upto 40% and also enhanced the performance of female employees. therefore, POSH as an act is not merely a shield to protect women from any harassment rather it is a REPUTATION BUILDING EXERCISE, that is an essential requirement to encourage greater participation of women at work.

Safety encompasses empowering the employees with the information on their rights & responsibilities, creating awareness about reporting procedures without fear of discrimination & biases, sensitization across gender on dignity of an Individual.

Undoubtedly, it would never have been possible without Sir, Dr Ajay Kummar Pandey

@4C Supreme Law International

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Dr. Ajay Kummar Pandey

( LLM, MBA, (UK), PhD, AIMA, AFAI, PHD Chamber, ICTC, PCI, FCC, DFC, PPL, MNP, BNI, ICJ (UK), WP, (UK), MLE, Harvard Square, London, CT, Blair Singer Institute, (USA), Dip. in International Crime, Leiden University, the Netherlands )

Advocate & Consultant, Supreme Court of India & High Courts

4C Supreme Law International, Delhi, NCR. Mumbai & Dubai

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