STATE TIMES NEWS
BARI BRAHMANA: The Department of Lifelong, University of Jammu on Thursday organised a workshop on ‘Prevention of Sexual Harassment at Workplaces’ for the employees of Sun Pharma, Bari Brahmana.
Dr. Kavita Suri, Director and Head, Department of Lifelong Learning, University of Jammu who is also Member, J&K State Commission for Women, Dr Savita Nayyar, Senior Assistant Professor, Department of Law, Dr Rewa Khajuria, Counselor DLL, Ashim Dutta, Plant Head, Vinod Kashkari HR and Admin Head, Jayant Chauhan GM Quality, Balwant Rana DGM Quality Assurance and Tejinder Singh Senior Manager Warehouse were also present.
Dr Kavita Suri, one of the key resource persons of the workshop who has also done considerable work on women’s issues, made a detailed presentation on ‘Gender, sex and sexual harassment at workplaces’. She said that work place harassment, intimidation, bullying or coercion including that of a sexualnature is becoming common as more and more women are coming out of their houses to work.
Dr. Savita Nayar, another key resource person of the workshop, threw light on the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 which is a Legislative Act in India that seeks to protect women from sexual harassment at their place of work.
Earlier, while introducing the topic, Vinod Kashkari HR and Admin Head said there is a need to enhance the frequency of such sensitization programmes at regular intervals.