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Know Your Workplace Sexual Harassment Protections
Explore POSH protections and complaint mechanisms. Identify the relevant organisational or legal route and seek support suited to your situation.
Prepare your records and choose the next resource
Useful records to organise for POSH Act. These prompts are not a mandatory filing checklist.
- Incident dates, workplace relationship and a clear factual chronology.
- Relevant communications and witness details, kept confidential.
- Committee contact details and copies of any complaint, acknowledgement or order.
How to complain
- Written complaint to the Internal Committee within 3 months (extendable to 6 months).
- Workplaces with <10 employees: complain to the District Officer's Local Committee.
- Interim reliefs: transfer, up to 3 months paid leave, restrain from contact (Sec. 12).
- Inquiry must complete within 90 days; employer acts within 60 days of report.
Your protections
- Identity kept strictly confidential (Sec. 16).
- Keep records of suspected retaliation and seek prompt advice on interim protection and employment remedies. A pending complaint does not itself establish that every termination is unlawful.
- Applies to employees, interns, contract workers, and visitors to the workplace.
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