Women working in both private and public organizations can lodge online complaints of sexual harassment through the SHe-Box portal: http://shebox.nic.in.
Women & Child Development Minister, Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi, launched a comprehensive #SHe-Box online complaint Management System for working women.
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22Women & Child Development Minister, Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi, launched a comprehensive #SHe-Box online complaint Management System for working women.
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Welcome Move, though much-awaited for such aggrieved women who wished they could complain against sexual harassment yet had no access to a mechanism which in the first place was not created or notified by a few unscrupulous employers. On the pretext, as it were, that they were ignorant about the new Act of 2013, namely the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition & Redressal) Act 2013 Section 19 which spelled out employers' duties besides other sections of the said Act of 2013. These sections categorically hold every employer liable to provide protection to women from sexual harassment at the workplace and to create a safe and secure workplace where no woman shall be subjected to sexual harassment by virtue of the fact or the constitutional provision which guarantees the fundamental right to life with dignity apart from other related fundamental rights. Better late than never.
Transformatix Team of Special Educators have allied with the cause of making every employer, employee, and others aware of this Act of 2013 through:
1. Conducting the mandatory programs;
2. Serving as a useful member (external) of internal committees;
3. Providing documentary support;
4. Conducting as an active IC member, inquiries into sexual harassment complaints in accordance with the principles of natural justice as well as the inquiry procedures prescribed by the judiciary for such internal inquiries; and last but not least, by being there for those who seek information, clarity, and assistance.
Harsh Sharan
Transformatix P Solutions
harsh@transformatix.in
16 Nov 2017
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Transformatix Team of Special Educators have allied with the cause of making every employer, employee, and others aware of this Act of 2013 through:
1. Conducting the mandatory programs;
2. Serving as a useful member (external) of internal committees;
3. Providing documentary support;
4. Conducting as an active IC member, inquiries into sexual harassment complaints in accordance with the principles of natural justice as well as the inquiry procedures prescribed by the judiciary for such internal inquiries; and last but not least, by being there for those who seek information, clarity, and assistance.
Harsh Sharan
Transformatix P Solutions
harsh@transformatix.in
16 Nov 2017
From India, Delhi
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Postscript to previous Post by Team Transformatix Special Educators:
"Any indecent and riotous behavior, an act of moral turpitude, and above all any act unworthy of employment" was already deemed as an act of misconduct as defined in the Standing Orders and/or the Service Rules, respectively, under the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act 1946 and/or the Shops & Establishment Acts and the Rules, as the case may be applicable to Industrial Undertakings/Establishments or the Commercial Establishments and as decided by the Supreme Court of India in the Sixties.
In spite of crystal-clear and categorical provisions/guidelines, few of us often did less than required from us - the disciplining or punishing authority and associates and were more often than not, somewhat indifferent or callous, as it were, or simply ignorant of them which resulted in unhelpful workplace indiscipline including harassment of women. In a few instances, the sexual harassment complaints got trivialized, often ignored leaving the aggrieved woman complainant helpless as well as hapless.
SHe Portal launched by the Ministry of Women & Child Development, ably spearheaded by Mrs. Meneka Gandhiji, shall be a boon for those particularly who were anyway deprived of ways and means/forum to raise their complaints against sexual harassment for the reason they were not made aware of them and in cases some were courageous enough to lodge a sexual harassment complaint, the harasser tendered his resignation to avert disciplinary action for his acts of misconduct and for violating the fundamental rights of women (Articles 14, 19, 21, etc.) guaranteed by the Indian Constitution. Less said the better about a bitter past.
The future is not likely to be the same. The availability of the SHe Portal, an online sexual harassment complaints registration mode/medium, shall serve any aggrieved woman well, and the harasser shall have a bleak prospect of getting scot-free.
Clarifications or requests for assistance, welcome.
Harsh Sharan,
Transformatix P Solutions,
From India, Delhi
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"Any indecent and riotous behavior, an act of moral turpitude, and above all any act unworthy of employment" was already deemed as an act of misconduct as defined in the Standing Orders and/or the Service Rules, respectively, under the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act 1946 and/or the Shops & Establishment Acts and the Rules, as the case may be applicable to Industrial Undertakings/Establishments or the Commercial Establishments and as decided by the Supreme Court of India in the Sixties.
In spite of crystal-clear and categorical provisions/guidelines, few of us often did less than required from us - the disciplining or punishing authority and associates and were more often than not, somewhat indifferent or callous, as it were, or simply ignorant of them which resulted in unhelpful workplace indiscipline including harassment of women. In a few instances, the sexual harassment complaints got trivialized, often ignored leaving the aggrieved woman complainant helpless as well as hapless.
SHe Portal launched by the Ministry of Women & Child Development, ably spearheaded by Mrs. Meneka Gandhiji, shall be a boon for those particularly who were anyway deprived of ways and means/forum to raise their complaints against sexual harassment for the reason they were not made aware of them and in cases some were courageous enough to lodge a sexual harassment complaint, the harasser tendered his resignation to avert disciplinary action for his acts of misconduct and for violating the fundamental rights of women (Articles 14, 19, 21, etc.) guaranteed by the Indian Constitution. Less said the better about a bitter past.
The future is not likely to be the same. The availability of the SHe Portal, an online sexual harassment complaints registration mode/medium, shall serve any aggrieved woman well, and the harasser shall have a bleak prospect of getting scot-free.
Clarifications or requests for assistance, welcome.
Harsh Sharan,
Transformatix P Solutions,
From India, Delhi
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