SAS Nagar, August 28, 2024:- A seminar on ‘The Prevention of Sexual Harassment (PoSH) at Workplace’ to discuss the problems faced by the women workers at their respective work places was conducted at Paragon Senior Secondary School, Sector 69, SAS Nagar with the help of District Legal Services Authority, SAS Nagar where in Ms. Surabhi Prashar, CJM-cum-Secretary, District Legal Services Authority apprised the faculty members regarding provisions of PoSH Act and discussed about the guidelines given by the Hon’ble Supreme Court in the case Vishakha and others v. State of Rajasthan.     
      She further discussed the significant ruling in the case of Aureliano Fernandes v/s State of Goa and Others in which the Hon’ble Supreme Court has highlighted several lapses and gaps in the implementation of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition, and Redressal) Act, 2013. 
Sexual harassment also includes the conduct of co-workers who engage in verbal or physically harassing behavior, Sexual advances, requests or demand for sexual favours, either explicitly or implicitly, in return for employment, promotion or examination, Eve teasing, unwelcome invitations meet outside office, suggestive comments or jokes, physical confinement against one’s will and intruding one’s privacy etc. which have the potential to humiliate or embarrass an employee or the company.
       She further elaborated the steps to be taken for the prevention of sexual harassment at the work place and she guided the audience by giving various suggestions like dealing upfront with the harasser, do not pretend it did not happen, immediately inform the alleged harasser that the behaviour is unwelcome, demand that the harassment must stop.