{"id":265547,"date":"2023-10-20T19:18:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T13:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=265547"},"modified":"2023-10-20T19:18:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T13:48:31","slug":"sc-asks-states-to-appoint-officers-under-posh-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sc-asks-states-to-appoint-officers-under-posh-act\/","title":{"rendered":"SC asks States to appoint officers under POSH Act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article <\/span>\u201cSC asks States to appoint officers under POSH Act\u201d <\/b>published in \u201c<\/strong><\/span>The Hindu\u201d on 20th October 2023<\/b><\/p>\n

What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n

The Supreme Court has directed the Centre and all the states and Union territories (UTs) to immediately appoint district officers under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act (POSH Act).<\/span><\/p>\n

What is Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act (POSH Act)?<\/b><\/h2>\n

Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

What are District Officers under the POSH Act?<\/b><\/h2>\n

The Sexual Harassment of Women At Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal)\u00a0<\/span>Act of 2013, or POSH Act mandates States to appoint a District Officer in every district.<\/span><\/p>\n

Functions of District Officer under POSH Act:<\/b><\/p>\n

Constitute Local Complaints Committees (LCCs): <\/b>District Officers would constitute Local Complaints Committees (LCCs) to receive complaints from women employed in small establishments with less than 10 workers or cases in which the accused is the employer himself.<\/span><\/p>\n

Appoint Nodal Officers: <\/b>A District Officer would appoint nodal officers under the Act in rural, tribal and urban areas.The nodal officers would <\/span>receive complaints and forward the same to the concerned <\/span>Local Complaints Committees (LCCs)<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 The <\/span>Local Complaints Committees (LCCs) <\/span>after conducting an inquiry have to submit its report to the district officer and the employer recommending action.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Submit Annual reports to Government:<\/b> The district officer will forward a brief statement on the annual reports submitted by every employer in their jurisdiction to the government.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Note: <\/b>An Internal Committee (IC) is to be set up under the POSH Act if the organization has 10 or more employees.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cSC asks States to appoint officers under POSH Act\u201d published in \u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 20th October 2023 What is the News? The Supreme Court has directed the Centre and all the states and Union territories (UTs) to immediately appoint district officers under the Sexual Harassment of Women… Continue reading SC asks States to appoint officers under POSH Act<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1731,1760,1],"tags":[11872,10498],"class_list":["post-265547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-bill-and-acts","category-polity-and-nation","category-uncategorized","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":51,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698369591},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}