PREVENTION OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT AT

PREVENTION OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT AT WORKPLACE

~ Aparajitha’s ‘60 Minutes Compliance’ Webinar addresses Physical & Virtual 

Workplace Concerns ~

Aparajitha Corporate Services Private Limited, the country’s no.1 company for 

Compliance, today organised a ’60 Minutes Compliance’ webinar to discuss the 

Prevention of Sexual Harassment at the Workplace. The webinar aimed at 

discussing and providing clarity for women on how they should protect 

themselves against sexual abuses and exploitation at workplaces in adherence 

to The Sexual Harassment of Women at the Workplace (Prevention, 

Prohibition & Redressal) Act, 2013.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Nagaraj Krishnan, Managing Director, 

Aparajitha Corporate Service Private Limited said, “There are important 

dimensions of workplace conduct and safety which women need to be aware. 

At the same time employers must remain conscious of the potential of 

blurring the lines of a professional relationship between employees. 

We do have many rights and regulations that are proactive in safeguarding 

a woman’s right to dignity and respect at the workplace. Today’s webinar 

is more of an advisory to provide awareness to working women 

professionals on how they can safeguard themselves from such 

harassment and tackle such issues on and off workplaces.”

Presently, sexual harassment has even broadened its boundaries into 

the current ‘work from home’ scenario on account of the COVID-19 

lockdown. Even in the context of video calls, which have become the 

‘new normal’ these days, proper training and sensitisation are
important on topics like dressing appropriately and keeping the 

conversation limited to work. With telecommunication today accounting 

for a large proportion of work, HR leaders will have to grapple with 

increasingly complex scenarios under the POSH Act. These are not limited 

to the duration of the lockdown. Employers should be cognisant of this 

extension of the workplace and must take all steps to ensure that the 

parallel virtual workplace remains as safe and free of intended or 

unintended harassment as the brick and mortar one.

The webinar highlighted workplaces should maintain a prevention, 

prohibition and redressal mechanism to harassments as this 

contributes to the realization of the right to equality of gender.

Numerous scenarios of harassment towards women in this current 

work from home in the form of inappropriate texts, option to 

audio-only mode in meetings were also discussed in an attempt to 

educate people on how this harassment has found a way to still be 

active in this pandemic crisis period work situation.

The webinar, which saw participation by 832 individuals comprising 

of HR professionals, mid & senior level personnel and women 

employees from Corporates across various industry sectors, 

was moderated and addressed by Mr. K. Varadan, Chief 

Consultation Officer, Aparajitha Corporate Services Private Limited.