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Complaint mechanism in sexual harassment

Every employers is bound to constitute adequate complaint mechanism to deal with complaint of s*xual harassment

 
Every employer in the territory of India is bound to abide by the judgment of the Supreme Court which is law under Article 141 of the Constitution. In the present case, the affidavit in reply which has been filed on behalf of the management shows that an Advocate was appointed as an Enquiry Officer to probe into the allegations which the Petitioner had made of the violation of her human right to gender equality. Appointing an Advocate as an Enquiry Officer does not constitute valid or adequate compliance with the judgment of the Supreme Court. The mandate of the law laid down by the Supreme 15
Court is that an employer at the work place must constitute a complaints mechanism to deal with complaints of victims. The Supreme Court directed that the complaint mechanism should be adequate to provide a Complaint Committee, a special counsellor


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