What is POSH Compliance?
Maintaining a healthy equation among all employees is a requirement in every organization. Regardless of the industry, it becomes vital for firm management to look after the physical and mental well-being of their employees. Apart from providing benefits to employees such as insurance, subsidized meals, and stress-relieving activities, managers must watch for hidden exploitations. Several organizations have put in place strict measures to avoid sexual exploitation.
The POSH Act, or the Prevention of Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition, and Redressal) Act, was passed in 2013 with the goal of providing protection against sexual harassment of women at work.
Today, POSH has become mandatory by the Government in all organizations.

Where does the Act apply?
Any workplace; to every public/private establishment that carries out any commercial, vocational, educational, entertainment, industrial or financial activities in the whole of India. This includes organized and unorganized sector and non-governmental organizations, absolutely any place that a woman visits as an employee, client, customer or as domestic help.
The Act extends to the whole of India with 10 or more employees.

What is the penalty?
Failing to form a committee or breaching any guidelines of POSH, the employer can be fined up to Rs. 50,000.
On repeated non-compliance, the employer may be penalized with twice the punishment.
Non-compliance can also lead to cancellation of license, withdrawal, or non-renewal of registration for carrying on business, by the Government or local authority.
POSH benefits for Employees
- Awareness of their rights under the PoSH Act.
- Building a comforting culture for Employees.
- Ensures a safe working environment across gender.
- Learning about serious and fake incidents categories under the Act.
- A feeling of belongingness and taken care of by Management.
- This helps women to come out and report any sexual misconduct from a college or a senior in the workplace and so, ensures a safe working environment.
- Boosts Morale and Improves Quality Work Culture
- Which further results in happy employees with an increase in their job satisfaction and employee engagement.
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POSH benefits for Management
- PoSH Training also enables employees to learn about fake PoSH complaints or what can be categorized as malicious complaints. This can reduce no. of false or fake complaints in the organization.
- Support of a robust and effective complaint redressal system in the organization
- It also helps the management to set up an internal complaints committee.
- Incidents related to sexual harassment nature hampers the productivity of not only the victims but also other employees, leading to a higher rate of attrition
- PoSH Training creates awareness in the organization resulting in lesser incidents and higher productivity.
- Training Initiatives like these by the organization show management interest in Employee welfare, mental health, and providing a safe environment across.
- POSH training improves employee retention and the quality of workplace culture.
- Strong Brand image – as this training improves the perception of employees about the organization.
- Minimizes attracting negative publicity on marketing platforms – unhappy Employees can damage the reputation and goodwill of an organization via social media.
- Creates trust in your customers and clients – as this policy covers them too.
- And not to forget, non-compliance to the act can attract penalties and legal hassles affecting the financial impact of the organizations.