Replacing a fragmented legacy framework, India’s new labour codes streamline compliance while extending protections to previously underserved worker groups, including contract, gig, and platform workers, and strengthening workplace inclusion for women. What are the new laws and what are they replacing? Until recently, India’s workplaces were governed by 29 fragmented labour laws. The four new… Continue reading How New Labour Laws Are Ungendering Workplaces?
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How Fairness Works in POSH Inquiries: What Everyone Involved Should Know
Over the past few years, PoSH inquiries have become a familiar fixture inside organisations. Most employees now know that a formal process exists, that an Internal Committee hears complaints, that reports are issued, and that statutory timelines guide the journey. On paper, the mechanism is no longer new. Yet in conversations with complainants, respondents, HR… Continue reading How Fairness Works in POSH Inquiries: What Everyone Involved Should Know
Does Conciliation End Employer’s PoSH Responsibilities?
What does conciliation actually conclude, the complaint, the inquiry, or the organisation’s responsibility to act? For many companies and Internal Committees(ICs), conciliation under the POSH framework has become a practical way to close a complaint, to de-escalate conflict and restore workplace stability. But it also leaves behind an unsettled question: when an Internal Committee’s inquiry… Continue reading Does Conciliation End Employer’s PoSH Responsibilities?
What Companies Must Know About PoSH Disclosures in the Director’s Report
The Director’s Report is a critical statutory document that reflects a company’s overall legal and governance compliance. For organisations covered under the PoSH Act, it serves as a key disclosure mechanism demonstrating whether statutory obligations relating to the prevention of sexual harassment at the workplace have been met. Any failure to include accurate PoSH-related disclosures… Continue reading What Companies Must Know About PoSH Disclosures in the Director’s Report
AI in PoSH: What Use Is a Machine to the People Who Sit, Listen, and Decide?
There is a quiet debate inside every Internal Committee. It doesn’t happen in official meetings. It happens in the moments around them, in the glance exchanged after a witness leaves, in the pause between two hearings, in the silence that follows reading a difficult complaint. And this debate is only getting louder as caseloads rise.… Continue reading AI in PoSH: What Use Is a Machine to the People Who Sit, Listen, and Decide?
How ICs Can Manage Cross-Organization Harassment Complaints?
The Supreme Court’s recent observations on the functioning of Internal Committees (ICs) did not alter the PoSH framework but clarified and reinforced its existing principles. This articulation reaffirms that employees retain the right to approach their own IC even when the alleged harasser belongs to another organization, thereby strengthening accountability across workplaces. Until now, many… Continue reading How ICs Can Manage Cross-Organization Harassment Complaints?
Not All Harassment Is Sexual Harassment? What Every IC Must Understand
The distinction between workplace harassment and sexual harassment is often blurred in real complaints. Employees may report mistreatment without understanding whether it falls under PoSH, leaving ICs to determine where the line is drawn under the law. At what point does an IC member draw a clear line between inappropriate behaviour and a violation under… Continue reading Not All Harassment Is Sexual Harassment? What Every IC Must Understand
Why Compliance Platforms Are the New Culture Infrastructure
When the Government of India launched SHE-Box, most people saw it as another reporting channel, a digital window for women to file complaints directly with the Ministry. But something more significant was happening beneath the surface. SHE-Box was a quiet but decisive policy statement about the future of workplace governance. It implied that justice systems… Continue reading Why Compliance Platforms Are the New Culture Infrastructure
Impact vs Intent: What Truly Determines Sexual Harassment?
Among the many questions Internal Committees grapple with, few create as much uncertainty as the balance between impact and intent. When a complaint lands on the IC’s table, members look for evidence, context, timelines, testimonies, and consistency. But eventually, the inquiry always circles back to the same tension: “Should the complainant’s experience of harm take… Continue reading Impact vs Intent: What Truly Determines Sexual Harassment?
Why Manual PoSH Registers Are a Legal Risk (and How Automation Fixes It)
There is a quiet, persistent irony in how organisations approach PoSH compliance.The law demands precision, traceability, and a timeline that can withstand external scrutiny, yet some of the most sensitive workplace records continue to live in Excel sheets with inconsistent formatting, notebooks maintained by whoever inherited the role, and email attachments titled “final_register_v4 (3).xlsx”. The… Continue reading Why Manual PoSH Registers Are a Legal Risk (and How Automation Fixes It)
