Parties not workplaces, POSH law can't apply, says SC
New Delhi, Sept. 16 -- The Supreme Court on Monday declined to entertain a plea seeking to extend the law on prevention of sexual harassment at workplaces to political parties, holding that parties cannot be treated as "workplaces" and their members are not "employees".
A bench led by CJI Bhushan R Gavai, and comprising justices K Vinod Chandran and NV Anjaria, said adopting such an expansive view would open a "pandora's box". "When you join a political party, you do not get a job. There is no payment for your work," the bench said. The court was hearing a special leave petition challenging a 2022 Kerala HC judgment, which ruled that political parties were under no obligation to constitute ICCs as required under the POSH Act, since party members were not employees in conventional sense. P8...
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