Compliance of PoSH Act to Maintain a Healthy Workplace Environment
Sexual harassment encompasses a range of activities from mild transgressions to sexual abuse or sexual assault. It is intimidating or coercion of sexual behaviour and the unpleasant or wrong promise of rewards in exchange for sexual favours. Internal Complaint Committee ICC is a body within a firm that is liable to scrutinize the issue of any sort of sexual harassment at the workplace. The IC shall have a senior women employee as the presiding officer. It should constitute a woman who is a member of an NGO or any organization which is dedicated to the cause of women. If a company has a base at many locations, and if each location has at least 10 members, it is mandatory to set up an IC at every location. The term of an IC is three years with at least 3 members constituting the chairperson. They collectively need to investigate a complaint. The investigation should be unbiased at all costs. The ICC encompasses powerful members of the firm along with a PoSH external member. The sen