The Union Cabinet has approved a Bill, which is aimed at protecting women, including lakhs employed as domestic workers, from sexual harassment at the work place. The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal Bill) was presented to the cabinet by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, after a Group of Ministers had earlier examined it.
The Bill aims to
protect not only women employees but those who enter the offices as clients,
customers, apprentices, students or research scholars. Considering the recent
happenings it is pretty important. Now women don’t feel protected out of the
house, so this bill may give them freedom of work, they may feel much more
protected now while working.
The Bill makes it
mandatory that all offices, hospitals, institutions and other workplaces should
have an internal redressal mechanism for complaints related to sexual harassment.
This is one of the necessary moves for sure.
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