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Is Your Daily Commute a "Workplace" under the POSH Act?
The Bombay High Court, in Siddhesh Pradeep Satpute v. State Bank of India & Ors., has clarified an important aspect of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 ("POSH Act") — whether an employee's daily commute can be regarded as a "workplace". The case arose from an allegation of sexual harassment during a commute in a shared public autorickshaw. The employer's Internal Committee ("IC") conducted an inquiry into the comp
Yashvardhan Sharma & Tara Sehgal
Jul 22 min read
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