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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

Case Briefs High Courts

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

Op Eds OP. ED.

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

by Dr Manika Kamthan*

Case Briefs High Courts

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

Case Briefs High Courts

[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

Case Briefs High Courts

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

Case Briefs International Courts

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,

Case Briefs High Courts

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

Case Briefs High Courts

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.”

Case Briefs High Courts

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†

Case Briefs High Courts

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