Hi everyone, hope you are doing well. Needed some guidance in context of the PoSH Policy at organisations. We are connecting with a lawyer to implement PoSH Policy at Juno. We wanted understand more about the filing of the Annual Report which is done at the beginning of every year. Does the external lawyer file the Annual Report on their behalf or is the report to be filed by the company while the lawyer only assists with the drafting of it? Would request the HRs who’ve closely worked with the implementation of the same and done this annual filing to please help here. Thank you : ) ((@Aashish @Hamsa Reddy))

Hi @Aashna, on the annual return if you are engaging an lawyer he/she can guide you in filing the returns, The format is pretty much standard and your lawyer will have a copy of it. Else if you have a outsourced your compliance to any labour consultant they can do the filing for you, they again will have the templates and letter format that you can fill in and they will file it for you.

we can help open source this

+1 since I require some exposure around this as well

This could be helped from an External member or a external consultant if you have hired to run the PoSH in your organization, happy to discuss

Hey @aashna I am a PoSH IC Member. Let me know how can I help.

Hi @aashna , We have been guided by the external member (Sasha) with the form but from the organization it’s the HR’s responsibility to file annual report before 8th of January 2023. I’m a PoSH IC member too, we can connect and chat if you need additional information.

Hey, thanks everyone. I feel we have got the answers we were looking for. Thank you : )

Hi @Aashna — depends on the agreement with your external member. The Presiding Officer has to sign it off anyway. Many contractual agreements have the filing of report as a part of the External Member responsibility. But the Presiding Officer can do it too.

Aashna file the annual report from the company end every year. It’s a simple doc where you need to mention the number of awareness sessions done. Number of complaints received and outcome of them.