Haryana Government will constitute local Complaints Committees to receive complaints of sexual harassment from establishments where the Internal Complaints Committees has not been constituted due to having less than ten workers in consonance with the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013.
A spokesperson of the Women and Child Development Department said that the Department is implementing this Act as per which every Government Department or private institution with ten or more employees to have an Internal Complaint Committee for hearing the cases of sexual harassment at workplace.
He said that directions have been issued to all concerned officers at district level to ensure constitution of the local Complaints Committees.
He said that besides, women employees working in all Government or private institutions, a domestic worker can also file a complaint to the local Complaints Committee under the Act.
Any employer can be fined upto Rs50,000 in case of violations of his duties under the Act.