WHAT WOMEN’S COMMISSION SAYS

■ Sexual harassment can occur not only where a person shows sexual behaviour to control, influence or affect the career, salary or job of another person, but also between co-workers.

■ All male superiors are required to understand that if a woman employee is being called for a discussion or meeting into a confined space (for e.g. an office), he needs to ensure presence of at least one more woman there for the entire duration of the meeting.

■ No discussion with regard to salary appraisals or any other monetary issue of a junior woman shall be done with any indication of receiving any favour from her.

■ Physical contact or advances construed as sexual in nature by male employees shall be considered as sexual harassment.

■ Sexually coloured remarks on a woman’s clothing or body are strictly prohibited at workplace. Indulging in any humour or pranks laced with sexual innuendoes are not allowed.

■ Any joke, photo, GIF, video or even plain text sent to a woman’s mobile phone by a male colleague, junior or senior, against her wish shall be taken as sexual harassment and dealt strictly.

■ Any communication happening on mobile devices, including mobile phones, tablets, computers or even landlines, are not limited by office hours and hence any objectionable content sent by a male colleague, junior or senior, to a female, even outside the office hours, shall not be tolerated by the Commission and be dealt with in lines with sexual harassment.