MUMBAI: The Local Complaints Committee of the BMC has recommended action against an associate professor of BYL Nair Hospital against whom a sexual harassment complaint was filed by a female medical student who is also a sportsperson. The student first approached an assistant professor after the incident in March, and when nothing was done, filed a complaint with the college’s …
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The Legal Coordination Committee for government doctors has urged the State government to immediately provide maternity benefits to its doctors. According to them, 40 women doctors who had completed their postgraduate medical studies in the State had not received their maternity leave benefits since 2018. The LCC termed this as “inhumane” and said that an Order permits competent authority to …
Highlights Notices were issued to all the district magistrates in Delhi seeking specific information. The Delhi Commission for Women has recently put forward a report about various 'lapses' in the implementation of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace law to the Delhi government. It said the low number of complaints registered could also be due to a lack of …
Vishaka Guidelines The legal recourse on the issue of sexual harassment in India came only in the 1990s, though the country signed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women on 30 July 1980 and ratified it on 9 July 1993. Banka, R : "Delhi High Court Sets Aside LCC's Order on Sexual Harassment Complaint," Hindustan …