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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

Meridian Textiles Pvt Ltd, Surat, has constituted an Internal Committee at its head office. The HR head asks what the Act requires the employer to do about the Committee's constitution order and the penal consequences of sexual harassment. Which step complies with the employer's duties under the Act?

The employer must display the penal consequences of sexual harassment and the order constituting the Internal Committee at a conspicuous place in the workplace. This is a statutory duty of every employer so that employees know the consequences and the committee, so confidential filing does not comply.

  1. AKeep the order and the penal consequences in confidential HR files, since only complainants need to know them
  2. BDisplay both at a conspicuous place in the workplaceCorrect
  3. CPublish both in a newspaper every year
  4. DSend both only to the Internal Committee members

Explanation

Section 19(b) requires every employer to display at a conspicuous place in the workplace the penal consequences of sexual harassment and the order constituting the Internal Committee. Keeping them confidential or circulating them only to committee members does not meet this duty. The Act does not require newspaper publication.

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