Prank Culture and Sexual Harassment at the Workplace: Why It’s No Laughing Matter
In the changing landscape of today’s workplaces, a thriving company culture often includes camaraderie and humour. However, there’s a fine line between harmless fun and actions that can cause significant harm.
Prank culture, particularly when it crosses into the realm of harassment, needs to be addressed seriously as per the guidelines set by the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace...
Instituting a Competent Internal Committee
Rupa, an HR Manager, was winding up her work for the day, when she received an unexpected call from the Head-HR, Arka. Arka asked Rupa to accompany him to a branch office the next day, as part of the Internal Complaints Committee (IC), as an allegation of sexual harassment against the Branch Head required an IC member unfamiliar with both parties. Arka instructed Rupa to maintain strict...
How to Effectively handle Sexual Harassment Complaints at your Organization
As the workplace becomes more and more diverse, there are several pros as well as some cons that arise. The unconscious biases start manifesting themselves in a bigger way when different people come together in teams. One of the ways in which such a bias shows up is sexual harassment because of preconceived gender notions. Companies have identified this as a big concern area but most of them...
How Biases Affect Our Logical Thinking?
When YouTube launched the video upload feature on their app, 5-10% of videos were uploaded upside-down and this perplexed Google developers. Could such a large percentage of users be shooting their videos incorrectly? Google engineers had inadvertently designed the app for right-handed users. They never considered the fact that phones are usually rotated 180 degrees when held in a user’s left...
Why CEO’s Are Still Against Implementing PoSH Compliance?
The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 came into existence and enforcement from the year 2013 for the safety of woman at workplaces.
But, ‘why are the employers still hesitant or against implementing the Act’ in their corporate system?
The reasons vary:
* It takes the least priority as compared to the other legal policies...
The Nirbhaya Case – Did It Make India A Safer Place for Women?
My mother got admitted to ICU suddenly this week.
I had to stay at the hospital on the first night. I was driving on the Mumbai roads at 11:30 pm with the Nirbhaya judgement in my mind, wondering if what I’m doing is safe?
Would I be able to reach the hospital safely without any issue?
Then my mind flashed back to what by all accounts happened with Nirbhaya on the night of December 21st,...
FAQ’s On Beyond Compliance – POSH 2.0
A Webinar conducted by KelpHR with Peoplematters on 22nd March 2017 on the topic BEYOND COMPLIANCE – POSH 2.0 . The following is the link of the webinar …. Following are the FAQ’s asked by the participants from various companies during our webinar.
Q: What are the evidences the IC team should collect?
Response : The evidence to be collected will be based on...
If You are a Victim, how to deal with SEXUAL HARASSMENT !!!
If you are victim, how to deal with Sexual Harassment:
In my workshops, this is one of the most common question that people ask me. Not in the crowd but during the breaks or at the end of the session as an offline question, listing some of the common tips as below.
• Make it clear to the harasser that you consider the behaviour as harassment.
• Say a firm ‘NO’ and tell the person...
Confidentiality At Workplace
As per the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, Confidentiality is given at most importance, the Act defines the following:
Every aspect of an investigation should be kept confidential. Maintaining confidentiality is critical to the integrity of an investigation. There can be serious consequences for failing to ensure that confidentiality...
HR’s Dilemma on Sexual Harassment Incidents
A prospective client approached us with the below scenario in her organization faced by her employees in the retail outlets across India:
“There are sudden unexpected resignations happening in my organization and especially women folks. On the last day of exit, they speak up after much probing and confess to the actual reason as being sexually harassed by colleagues or managers and hence...
