After more than a decade of POSH Law, perhaps the question is no longer whether organizations are compliant, but whether employees actually feel safe. As an external member, you may spend years helping organizations understand the law. You help draft policies, constitute Internal Committees (ICs), train members, conduct awareness programmes, advise management and support inquiries. Over time, you watch organizations become increasingly sophisticated in their approach to compliance. And then an incident happens. A woman is assaulted at a place where she should have been safe. The country is…

Maternity Benefit: Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 is applicable to every factory, shop or establishment, where 10 or more people are or were employed at any given point of time in the preceding 12 months. It is an Act to regulate the employment of women in certain establishments for certain periods before and after child-birth and to provide for maternity benefit and certain other benefits. The Maternity Benefit…

Maintenance: Maintenance signifies the legal obligation to provide financial support to one spouse from another spouse after marital separation or divorce. Law on divorce has been previously covered by Legal Parley here. Taxability of Maintenance: Whether this Maintenance in the hands of the receiver is taxable can be ascertained after understanding the meaning of ‘income’ under Section 2(24) of Income Tax Act, 1961. While, maintenance…

Is committing suicide a crime?  Suicide is man’s way of telling God, ‘You can’t fire me, I quit’ – Bill Maher Many of us have experienced a momentary weakness of mental strength. At times, driving us to give up on our lives. The dark cloud of sorrow comes crashing into one’s life when you least expect it. Such circumstances make us feel despondent enough to disregard the…

Prenuptial Agreement: You don’t know a woman, until you have met her in court – Norman Mailer A fair amount of couples are opting for a prenuptial agreement these days before they take the plunge. A prenuptial agreement or prenup ‘is entered between two individuals who are about to get married, outlining the state of their finances and personal liabilities in case the marriage fails.’ Prenuptial…