Written Complaint Mandatory, Hostility or Adverse Employment Action is no Sexual Harassment; Kerala HC – Business Manager

Written Complaint Mandatory, Hostility or Adverse Employment Action is no Sexual Harassment; Kerala HC – Business Manager

In this significant decision under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 (“PoSH Act”), the Kerala High Court’s Division Bench recently has held that: A written complaint under Section 9 is mandatory for an inquiry to be valid. Oral statements by an aggrieved woman, after disowning an earlier anonymous complaint, cannot replace this requirement. Allegations without a sexual element — even i…