India's Prevention of Sexual Harassment (POSH) Training

Explore landmark cases that shaped India's posh act, including Vishaka v. Rajasthan and the Vishaka guidelines, along with Ruchika Girhotra case.

Learn how the POSH Act protects women at work in India by prohibiting harassment, establishing internal committees, and detailing complaint, enquiry, and redressal processes.

Explore how employers and preventive authorities uphold POSH, including anti-harassment policies, complaint handling, leadership accountability, and the roles of the appropriate government, district officer, and labor commissioner.

Identify explicit and implicit sexual harassment in the workplace, and learn how to respond, report, and support survivors while ensuring confidentiality and lawful protection.

Learn how the internal complaints committee and local complaints committee address workplace sexual harassment through structured, confidential processes. They require at least 50% women, include external experts, and report annually.

The lecture outlines the rights of both the complainant and the respondent in workplace harassment cases, including a fair, confidential, time-bound process, access to evidence, counselling, non-retaliation, and appeals.

Explore the POSH inquiry process timelines, including filing within three months, seven-day notices, 90-day inquiries, 10-day report submission, 60-day implementation, 90-day appeals, and maintain confidentiality of proceedings.

Apply the reasonable woman standard and intent versus impact to assess workplace harassment, informed by a human rights perspective and evidence, emphasizing high-probability circumstantial proof when direct evidence is lacking.

Raise awareness through gender sensitization, educate staff to recognize and eliminate workplace gender discrimination, and foster a safe, inclusive environment that reduces sexual harassment.

Navigate federal, state, and local anti-discrimination laws and implement a comprehensive policy prohibiting discrimination and harassment, with mandatory training, reporting mechanisms, and prompt investigations addressing disparate impact.

Learn practical bystander intervention techniques and designing policies to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace, including reporting avenues, confidentiality, prompt investigations, and ongoing training.

Educate employers and employees with regular, interactive two-stage posh training including policy content, enforcement, grievance procedures, and sensing mechanisms like anonymous surveys to prevent harassment.

Explore case studies of sexual harassment, from quid pro quo to a hostile work environment, and learn to identify, address, and prevent such situations to foster safety and respect.

Explore quid pro quo harassment in a mid-sized technology company, where rejected advances affect a promotion, create a hostile work environment, and trigger HR investigation, policy reinforcement, and further training.

Identify and address a hostile work environment by documenting inappropriate comments, reporting them to a supervisor, and initiating an investigation that may lead to discipline and required training.

Identify third-party harassment by customers in retail and report it to ensure a safe work environment, while learning how management addresses the behavior and protects employees from retaliation.

Explore sexual harassment in remote work via digital platforms, and learn to document incidents with evidence, report to supervisors and HR, and support investigations and policy reminders.

Examine retaliation against reporting sexual harassment, including exclusion from meetings, hostile behavior, and disciplinary actions after investigations, and highlight the non retaliation policy and related training to prevent retaliation.