ANALYSIS AND MECHANISM OF PoSH ACT

Abstract: PoSH (Protection of Women from Sexual Harassment) Act, 2013 The PoSH Act has been implemented to prevent and protect women from sexual harassment at the workplace and thereby ensure a safe working environment for women. This supreme court judgment defined the ambit of Sexual Harassment as including an uninvited or unwelcome sexual favour or sexual gestures from one gender towards the other gender The PoSH Act, as mandatary compliance, requires every company having more than ten employees to constitute an Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) in the prescribed manner to receive and address the complaints of any sort of sexual harassment from women in a time-bound and extremely confidential manner so this paper studies about key Provisions of POSH Act and comprehensive Study of the implementation and effectiveness of the Prevention of Sexual Harassment (POSH) Act in Indian workplaces.

Keywords: Sexual Harassment, Workplace, Vishakha Guidelines