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CS Executive · Setting Up of Business, Industrial and Labour Laws · Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013

Kaveri Logistics has 8 workers and no Internal Committee. A woman employee wishes to complain of sexual harassment by a supervisor. To whom may she complain under the Act?

She may complain to the Local Committee constituted by the District Officer. The Act provides this forum for establishments that have no Internal Committee because they have fewer than ten workers, as Kaveri Logistics has with eight.

  1. AThe Internal Committee of the nearest company
  2. BThe Local Committee constituted by the District OfficerCorrect
  3. CThe Presiding Officer of the Board of Directors
  4. DOnly the jurisdictional Labour Commissioner

Explanation

Section 6(1) provides for a Local Committee in each district to receive complaints from establishments where the Internal Committee has not been constituted because there are fewer than ten workers, or where the complaint is against the employer. Kaveri has 8 workers, so the Local Committee is the forum. The other options are not forums named in the Act.

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