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Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) organised a seminar and consciousness programme connected the enactment of an Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) successful compliance with the Prevention of Sexual Harassment (POSH) Act, 2013, connected Tuesday, November 18, connected its premises here.
Labour Officers B.R. Kumar and Wilma Elizabeth Tauro, Women and Child Development Deputy Director Usman, and others addressed the programme, which was presided implicit by Chamber President P.B. Ahmed Mudassar.
Officials told Chamber members that each workplaces employing 10 oregon much unit members, irrespective of gender, indispensable found an ICC. Every portion with 10 oregon much employees is required to acceptable up its ain ICC. Section 26 of the POSH Act prescribes penalties for the nonaccomplishment to represent an ICC, they said.
An ICC should person a minimum of 4 members, with the bulk being women and 1 outer subordinate who is knowledgeable successful the taxable matter. Officials emphasised that adjacent establishments successful the unorganised assemblage — for example, a tailor store employing much than 10 unit — indispensable signifier ICCs and registry connected the Sexual Harassment physics Box (SHe-Box) portal (https://shebox.wcd.gov.in/).
