INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Complaints of sexual harassment in the workplace filed by 44 Nifty companies increased marginally for the first time in three years, leading
to a debate over whether awareness has improved or such cases are being underreported.
The number of complaints reported by the 44 companies
in their latest annual reports stood at 620 in FY18, marginally higher than the 614 reported a year earlier
This comes after these cases increased 24 per cent in FY16 and 18.5 per cent in FY17.
While most industry experts agreed that sensitisation
advocate working in the field of sexual harassment in companies
and some have seen a steady increase in the complaints (see table).
On the other hand, eight of the 44 companies that reported having
with 24 per cent for the average Indian workforce
founder of ComplyKaro Services
Under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, private and public companies must set
that it has complied with provisions related to setting up an internal complaints committee under the Sexual Harassment of Women at
