In a first of it's kind, an Indian woman staffer gainfully employed with the Sri Lankan Airlines moved the Delhi High Court on Wednesday seeking the strict and timely implementation of the Vishakha guidelines pertaining to cases or instances of sexual harassment within the workplace........
A vacation bench of justices Siddharth Mridul and Sunita Gupta before whom the matter was mentioned, took due cognisance of the same and posted the case for hearing on Friday June 20,2014........
The aggrieved woman who is currently employed with the Sri Lankan Airlines as a sales executive petitioned the Delhi High Court as her employers had failed to initiate any kind of punitive or other action against a fellow employee against whom the victim had filed a sexual harassment case way back in the year 2009........
In her petition, the victim impleaded the designated court to issue directions to the concerned ministries; namely the civil aviation and women and child development ministry to take due cognisance of her petition and file cases against her employers for their abject failure to implement the above mentioned guidelines within their working environment........the same petition also implores the government to issue requisite and necessary directions about the time bound implementation of the Vishakha guidelines as well as provisions of the sexual harassment at workplace act in all airline offices within India........
One may do well to recall the fact that acts of sexual harassment within the workplace had hit the headlines and occupied considerable media space following the Tarun Tejpal imbroglio in the sunny and sylvan climes of Goa; the Vishakha guidelines and their impartial implementation had become the subject of many a television studio debate before the euphoria dissipated and the same was reduced to a muted whimper........
A vacation bench of justices Siddharth Mridul and Sunita Gupta before whom the matter was mentioned, took due cognisance of the same and posted the case for hearing on Friday June 20,2014........
The aggrieved woman who is currently employed with the Sri Lankan Airlines as a sales executive petitioned the Delhi High Court as her employers had failed to initiate any kind of punitive or other action against a fellow employee against whom the victim had filed a sexual harassment case way back in the year 2009........
In her petition, the victim impleaded the designated court to issue directions to the concerned ministries; namely the civil aviation and women and child development ministry to take due cognisance of her petition and file cases against her employers for their abject failure to implement the above mentioned guidelines within their working environment........the same petition also implores the government to issue requisite and necessary directions about the time bound implementation of the Vishakha guidelines as well as provisions of the sexual harassment at workplace act in all airline offices within India........
One may do well to recall the fact that acts of sexual harassment within the workplace had hit the headlines and occupied considerable media space following the Tarun Tejpal imbroglio in the sunny and sylvan climes of Goa; the Vishakha guidelines and their impartial implementation had become the subject of many a television studio debate before the euphoria dissipated and the same was reduced to a muted whimper........
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