Policy on Harassment Free Workplace
Introduction
As a Company, Asirvad Microfinance Limited (AML) is committed to ensuring that the work environment at all its locations is conducive to fair, safe and harmonious relations between employees. Discrimination and harassment of any type/form is strictly prohibited. We place high importance in creating a discrimination free workplace and any violation of any form is not tolerated as part of our employee practices.
We have also ensured that no employee is at disadvantage by the way of gender discrimination. This note therefore enunciates the Company’s approach to the issue of sexual harassment and its policy for dealing with any incidence of the same.
Scope of this Policy
This policy applies to all individuals who are employed in a permanent or temporary capacity at any business location or deployed/visiting at customer site by the Company. This policy document will be made available to all Divisions associated with the Company with a clear objective to establish a similar approach in dealing with this issue.
Definition of Issue
A broad definition of sexual harassment consists of any physical or verbal behavior and any form of communication that has unnecessary, improper or unwelcome sexual connotations. Sexual harassment may vary in form depending on circumstances. It may consist of, but not be limited to, any of the following:
As mentioned above, this is an indicative but not an exhaustive list of possible forms of sexual harassment.
AML’S Policy on Sexual Harassment
The Company’s policy is to totally prohibit any form of sexual harassment in the way employees behave with each other. This would also include complaints relating to instances outside of the work place during working hours. This applies equally to all employees of AML. Any incident of sexual harassment will be taken extremely serious and compliant of this nature will be immediately investigated and appropriate action will be taken against the offending employee/s. Such action will depend on the nature and seriousness of the offence and will include strict disciplinary action including and up to termination of services.
Complaints Handling Process
The Company has established the following process to ensure that any incidence of sexual harassment is dealt with appropriately, sensitively and expeditiously.
Process for dealing with incidents of sexual harassment
Internal Complaints Committee (ICC)
AML has established an Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) for Sexual Harassment consisting of four internal members and one external member. The names of the members of this Committee and their contact details are given below.
Sl No | Name | Role | Contact Details | Location |
1 | Ms. Suryapraba | Presiding Officer | Mobile: 9847239398 Email ID: gmlegalcorporate@manappuram.com | Kerala |
2 | Mr. Bikram Mishra | Member | Mobile: 9384698860 Email ID: bikram.mishra@asirvad.in | Chennai |
3 | Ms. Lakshmi | Member | Mobile: 9361800768 Email ID: Lakshmi.k@asirvad.in | Chennai |
4 | Mr. Ramachandran S | Member | Mobile: Email ID: s.ramachandran@asirvad.in | Chennai |
5 | Ms. Sujitha Rabeca | Member | Mobile: 6379902792 Email ID: sujitha.rabeca@asirvad.in | Chennai |
External Representative: – Ms. Suryapraba
Email id: gmlegalcorporate@manappuram.com
Contact no: +91 – 9847239398
Mr. S V Raja Vaidyanathan, Managing Director, Asirvad Microfinance Limited (AML), will provide all necessary support to the work of this Committee.
State HR representatives
Sno | State | HR Name | Contact Number | Mail ID |
1 | Kerala | Indu Kannan | 9526752233 | indukannan@asirvad.in |
2 | Karnataka | Vijay Pundalik Kumbar | 6362966867 | vijay.pundalik@asirvad.in |
3 | Punjab | Harish Kumar | 9053058224 | kumar.harish@asirvad.in |
4 | Uttar Pradesh | Abhishek Yadav | 7084159538 | abhishek.yadav@asirvad.in |
5 | Bihar | Sumit Kumar | 7369941804 | sumit.kumar@asirvad.in |
6 | Uttarkhand | Anmol Sharma | 9368070280 | anmol.sharma@asirvad.in |
7 | Jharkhand | Sumit Kumar Lal | 7283007535 | lal.sumitkumar@asirvad.in |
8 | West Bengal | Trisha Roy A | 7479002578 | trisha.roy@asirvad.in |
9 | Tripura | Bippan Nath B | 7085061346 | bippan.nath@asirvad.in |
10 | Assam | Gitanjali Khanikar | 6900184141 | gitanjali.khanikar@asirvad.in |
11 | Madhya Pradesh | Dipali Jain | 8770539074 | Dpli.jain@asirvad.in |
12 | Chhattisgarh | Madhumita S | 6262001521 | madhumita@asirvad.in |
13 | Rajasthan | Priya Saini | 7229812222 | priya.saini@asirvad.in |
14 | Maharashtra | Shital Krishna Kundekar | 7410028363 | shital.krishna@asirvad.in |
15 | Odisha | Laxmipriya Behera | 7328842941 | laxmipriya.behera@asirvad.in |
Safety Guidelines for Women Employees at Work Place
Cases not covered by or requiring relaxation of these rules or where doubt has arisen regarding the interpretation thereof shall be referred to myhrsupport@asirvad.in and HR shall consider each case on its merit and submit it to the HOD/COO whose decision in such cases shall be final