SEXUAL HARASSMENT AT WORKPLACE: LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORK
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“Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.”
Sexual harassment at workplace is not so far perceived as a lawfully unmistakable kind of disallowed act in umpteen quantities of nations over the world. In the beginning the court treated to sexual harassment as a criminal violation or a civil violation which we can say violation of privacy. In this chapter researcher has focused on the various laws those are relating to sexual harassment at workplace.
Before 1997 word sexual harassment directly not in use in any law in India but the behaviour relating to sexual harassment are punishable under various section of IPC. It was the year of 1997 where Supreme Court gives guideline in Vishaka v. State of Rajasthan, 1997 about sexual harassment of women at workplace and held that this is violation of women’s right. The guidelines defined sexual harassment and Supreme Court stated to impose compulsory duty on the employer to make a complaint mechanism to initiate criminal action against the offender, take certain preventive measures or create awareness among the workers about the guidelines, and protect women against the act who commits against them.
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