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SEXUAL HARASSMENT OF WOMEN AT WORKPLACE (PREVENTION, PROHIBITION AND REDRESSAL) ACT

2013

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Related Legislation: - Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace(Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Rules , 2013

About The Act

Objectives
An Act to provide protection against sexual harassment of women at workplace and for the prevention and redressal of complaints of sexual harassment and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.<br>WHEREAS sexual harassment results in violation of the fundamental rights of a woman to equality under articles 14 and 15 of the Constitution oflndia and her right to life and to live with dignity under article 21 of the Constitution and right to practice any profession or to carry on any occupation, trade or business which includes a right to a safe environment free from sexual harassment;<br>AND WHEREAS the protection against sexual harassment mid the right to work with dignity are universally recognised human rights by international conventions and instruments such as Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women, which has been ratified on the 25th June, 1993 by the Government of India:
Applicability
(j) "employee" means a person employed at a workplace for any work on regular, temporary, ad hoc or daily wage basis, either directly or through an agent, including a contractor, with or, without the knowledge of the principal employer, whether for remuneration or not, or working on a voluntary basis or otherwise, whether the terms of employment are express or implied and includes a co-worker, a contract worker, probationer, trainee, apprentice or called by any other such name;<br><br>"employer" means:_<br>(i) in relation to any department, organisation, undertaking, establishment, enterprise, institution, office, branch or unit of the appropriate Government or a&nbsp; local authority, the head of that department, organisation, undertaking, establishment, enterprise, institution, office, branch or unit or such.other officer as the appropriate Government or the local authority, as the case may be, may by<br>an order specifY in this behalf;<br>(ii) in any workplace not covered under sub-clause (i), any person responsible for the management, supervision and control of the workplace. <br>Explanation--For the purposes of this sub-clause "management" includes the person or board or committee responsible for formulation and administration of polices for such organisation;<br>(iii) in relation to workplace covered under sub-clauses (i) and (ii), the person discharging contractual obligations with respect to his or her employees; <br>(iv) in relation to a dwelling place or house, a person or a household who employs or benefits from the employment of domestic worker, irrespective of the number, time period or type of such worker employed, or the nature of the employment or activities performed by the domestic worker;