POSH Compliance & Internal Committee

POSH compliance is the implementation of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act 2013 — the constitution of the Internal Committee under Section 4 of the Act for the organisations with the prescribed number of employees, the policies and the awareness, the complaints mechanism and the inquiry process under the Act, the annual report to the employer and the filing under Section 21, and the local committee coordination where the Act requires. The Act makes the employer responsible for the safe workplace and the redressal machinery.

The POSH Act is the workplace anti-harassment framework that applies to every organisation with the prescribed strength — the Internal Committee under Section 4, the policy that defines the prohibited conduct and the redressal, the inquiry and the action under Sections 11 to 13, and the annual reporting. The compliance is not a poster; it is the machinery — the committee, the process, the training, the report — that the Act requires to be real.

The cost of a non-compliant organisation is the penalty under Section 26 of the Act for the failure to constitute the committee or comply with the provisions, and the liability of the workplace where the harassment occurred without the machinery. The organisation that runs the POSH machinery properly protects its people and itself.

This service is for employers required to comply with the POSH Act 2013. We assess the applicability and constitute the Internal Committee under Section 4, draft the POSH policy and the employee handbook provisions, train the employees and the committee, set up the complaints and the inquiry process under the Act, manage the annual report and the filing under Section 21, and review the compliance so the workplace machinery is real and current.