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ECJ mandates employers to reimburse cost of spectacles and lenses for work involving display screen equipment

European Court of Justice: In a landmark ruling the Bench comprising A. Prechal (President), M.L. Arastey Sahún (Rapporteur), F. Biltgen, N. Wahl

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Whether S. 5 Limitation Act, 1963 apply to appeals under S. 18 of POSH Act, 2013? Delhi High Court answers

    Delhi High Court: C Hari Shankar, J. opined that Section 5 of the Limitation Act, 1963 will apply in respect

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Need for Inclusion of LGBTQIA+ under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013

by Dr Manika Kamthan*

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Maternity Benefits | Do employers have a responsibility to ensure that delivering and raising a child, shall not be detrimental to female officer’s career? Ker HC explains

Kerala High Court: Addressing a matter wherein maternity benefits were not being allowed to female officers, Raja Vijayaraghavan V, JJ., expressed that

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[POSH] Chh HC | Whether obscene language used by A against B would amount to sexual harassment within workplace if working institution is different but appointed by the same employer i.e. Government of Chhattisgarh?

Chhattisgarh High Court: Narendra Kumar Vyas J. allowed the petition and remarked “any victim of sexual harassment at workplace should not run

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Kar HC | A Mangalore University professor being accused of sexual harassment by a student; Court observes “He that takes the procedural sword shall perish with that sword”

Karnataka High Court: M Nagprasanna, J., allowed the petition and quashed the impugned second show cause notice holding The University is at

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Prohibiting Islamic headscarf and other religious signs at workplace isn’t discriminatory; ECJ backs up political, ideological and religious neutrality policy

European Court of Justice: In a landmark ruling the Grand Chamber comprising of composed of K. Lenaerts, President, R. Silva de Lapuerta,

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Sikk HC | Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace| Open for Executive Authority to decide the scope of the term ‘workplace’

Sikkim High Court: The Division Bench of Jitendra Kumar Maheshwari, CJ. and Meenakshi Madan Rai, J., partly allowed an appeal which was

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OSHA | Guidance on Mitigating and Preventing the Spread of COVID-19 in the Workplace

On January 29, 2021, in response to the President Biden Executive Order directing the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to update

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Del HC | Can absence of eyewitness in a sexual harassment incident detract complainant’s credibility before Internal Complaints Committee constituted at a workplace? HC explains

“…it is this gender conditioning that leads men to abuse, ill-treat or become violent towards women and TGs or treat them disparagingly and with condescension.”

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Sikk HC | Whether a private function comes within ambit of broad interpretation of “workplace” in POSH Act?: HC to determine

Sikkim High Court: Bhaskar Raj Pradhan, J.has framed an eminent question for determination which will have an impact on the dispensation of justice

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Aspiring Safer Workplaces; Blindspot in the sexual harassment law in India 

by Simran Jain†

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Petitioner’s transfer cancelled due to financial inconvenience which could be caused as a consequence thereof:  Patna HC

Patna High Court: A Single Judge Bench comprising of Shivaji Pandey, J. dismissed a writ petition for transfer owing to financial inconvenience