{"id":102,"date":"2019-11-18T05:47:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T05:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.normsmanagement.com\/blog\/?post_type=ufaq&#038;p=102"},"modified":"2025-09-17T11:46:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T11:46:52","slug":"the-sexual-harassment-of-women-at-workplace-prevention-prohibition-and-redressal-act-2013","status":"publish","type":"ufaq","link":"https:\/\/www.normsmanagement.com\/blog\/ufaqs\/the-sexual-harassment-of-women-at-workplace-prevention-prohibition-and-redressal-act-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SEXUAL HARASSMENT OF WOMEN AT WORKPLACE (PREVENTION, PROHIBITION AND REDRESSAL) ACT, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Applies to<\/strong>:\u2002Whole of India, came into force on 09.12.2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Aggrieved Woman:<\/strong>\u2002In relation to a work place, a woman, of any age whether employed or not, who alleges to have been subjected to any act of sexual harassment by the respondent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sexual Harassment:<\/strong>\u2002Physical contact and advances, or a demand or request for sexual favours, or making sexually coloured remarks, or showing pornography, or any other unwelcome physical, verbal or non- verbal contact of sexual nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Internal Complaints Committee:<\/strong>\u2002An employer by an order in writing shall constitute an&nbsp; Internal Complaints Committee for his establishment and for each of its branches\/ divisions also.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Presiding Officer:<\/strong>\u2002A woman employed at a senior level from among the employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Members:<\/strong>\u2002Not less than two from the employees, One from NGOs or Associations, One half members should be women. Tenure &#8211; three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Complaint:<\/strong>\u2002In writing within a period of three months from the date of incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Inquiry time limit:<\/strong>\u2002Ninety days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Duties of employer:<\/strong>\u2002Provide safe working environment, display the penal consequences of sexual harassment, organise workshops, provide facilities to ICC for dealing the complaint, furnish the required information, treat sexual harassment as a misconduct under the service rules, monitor the timely submission of reports. Publication or making known contents of complaint and inquiry proceedings- prohibited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Annual Report of employer:<\/strong>\u2002Include in its report the number of cases filed if any and the disposal of the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Penalty for non- compliance:<\/strong>\u2002Contravenes any provisions of the Act- punishable with fine Rs. 50,000\/- If repeated the same offence- Twice the punishment, which might have been imposed on the 1st conviction, subject to the punishment being maximum provided for the same offence. Cancellation of his licence or withdrawal, or non-renewal or approval, or cancellation of the registration to run the business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applies to:\u2002Whole of India, came into force on 09.12.2013 Aggrieved Woman:\u2002In relation to a work place, a woman, of any age whether employed or not, who alleges to have been subjected to any act of sexual harassment by the respondent. Sexual Harassment:\u2002Physical contact and advances, or a demand or request for sexual favours, or making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","ufaq-category":[5],"ufaq-tag":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.normsmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ufaq\/102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.normsmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ufaq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.normsmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ufaq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.normsmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.normsmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.normsmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ufaq-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.normsmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ufaq-category?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"ufaq-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.normsmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ufaq-tag?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}