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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

Veda Textiles Ltd has its head office in Pune and separate administrative units in Surat and Chennai. Under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Act, 2013, where must the Internal Committee be constituted?

The Internal Committee must be constituted at all administrative units or offices of the workplace, so Pune, Surat and Chennai each need one. The Act requires this where offices are located at different places, and a single head-office committee does not satisfy it.

  1. AOnly at the head office in Pune
  2. BAt all administrative units or offices, including Surat and ChennaiCorrect
  3. COnly at the unit with the largest number of women employees
  4. DOnly at units that have received a prior complaint

Explanation

The proviso to section 4(1) says that where offices or administrative units are at different places or at divisional or sub-divisional level, the Internal Committee must be constituted at all of them. A single committee at the head office is therefore not enough. Waiting for a complaint or choosing by headcount has no basis in the text.

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