
Sexual harassment at the workplace is prohibited and currently governed by the Sexual Harassment of Women At Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 and Sexual Harassment of Women At Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Rules, 2013.The Act in a nut shell provides for rights and duties of the employer, employee, and stakeholders that together form a workplace.
To understand your duties as an implementer of POSH in your organisation, you can check our POSH Implementer Checklist –
Higher Educational Institutions when setting up POSH mechanisms and addressing POSH have to read the POSH Act and the UGC (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal of Sexual Harassment of Women Employees and Students in Higher Education Institutions) Regulations, 2015.