Career Resource - Prevention of Sexual Harassment at Workplace – Understanding the Issues

The promulgation of The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 (henceforth referred to as The Act) has brought forth several key yet, desired interventions in the Indian workplaces.

NASSCOM under the aegis of the D & I initiative “What Do I Do?” Series, is organizing a one day workshop to help organizations understand their roles and responsibilities with the advent of the new statute. It will help employers audit their practices and ensure compliance.

Topics to be covered in the workshop:

1) Overview – What is and & What is not Harassment

2) Types of Harassment - Behaviours that constitute harassment

3) Impact of Sexual Harassment at Workplace (case studies)

4) Challenges of office romance

5) Retaliation – Fears & Challenges

6) The Prevention of Sexual Harassment Act 2013 – interpretation, compliance etc.

7) Punishment & Penalty as per the law

8) Rights and Responsibilities of the accused, complainant & Employer

9) Role of ICC, How to set up ICC as per law, conduct of ICC as per law

10) Do’s and Don’ts for the members of the internal complaint committee

11) Process of dealing with the complaint

12) How to handle false and malicious complaints

13) What happens if the case goes into the court of law

14) Methodologies of Judicial review of the systems and ICC by the courts of law

15) Guidelines on Internal Policy Changes & Annual Return Filing

16) Global Jurisdiction and alignment with global best practices, etc.

Workshop Facilitators

1) Nirmala Menon Founder and CEO, Interweave Consulting Pvt. Ltd

2) Swarnima Senior Associate in the Bangalore office of Trilegal 

You can register here or e-mail to Ms. Niki at chennai@nasscom.in