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#MeToo: Tata Sons ends ties with Suhel Seth after sexual misconduct charges

Several women, including model Diandra Soares, filmmaker Natasha Rathore and writer Ira Trivedi, accused Seth of sexual misconduct

As #MeToo gains pace, experts call for wider background check of employees

'The financial sector leads in carrying out employee background checks, while the IT industry is fast catching up with data breaches and information confidentiality becoming a big concern'

Retrospective scrutiny?

In the first of a two part series, the author explores the delicate relationship between a predecessor and a successor

India's top firms report zero sexual harassment case, but there's a catch

Zero complaints may be an indicator of a lack of the requisite mechanism to allow for such reporting and capture such complaints

#MeToo movement: How India Inc is handling sexual harassment at workplace

According to a gender diversity report by TeamLease from 2016, 72% of women respondents lacked faith in the organisational measures to deal with sexual harassment

Seven students accuse Ivy League Dartmouth professors of sexual harassment

The lawsuit claimed that Dartmouth knew about the professors' bad behaviour for 16 years

BCCI's Rahul Johri cleared of sexual harassment charge, free to resume work

Johri was on forced leave for the past three weeks

80% men 'overly cautious' with women at work after MeToo, shows study

About seven in every 10 respondents said that encouraging the affected women to be independent can possibly help them speak up about the abuse

To act or not to act: #MeToo movement's legal dilemmas for employers

Time-barred complaints could be a double-edged sword for employers

#MeToo: Why no action against sexual harassment, SC asks media regulators

The court observed that some of the offences have criminal liability and that it is quite clear that no prosecution has taken place by these bodies

#MeToo: SC declines urgent hearing of PIL seeking FIRs based on allegations

A bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice S K Kaul told lawyer M L Sharma, who had filed the petition, that it will come up for hearing in the regular course

Using #MeToo for character assassination is obnoxious: Anu Malik's lawyer

Last week, singer Sona Mohapatra had also called Malik a 'serial predator'

Letter to BS: Govt's defensive approach on #MeToo didn't help much

Now, the govt should immediately form a legal panel to set the record straight and ensure that every such complaint reaches its logical conclusion

#MeToo: Court to record M J Akbar's statement in defamation case on Oct 31

Akbar's plea has listed alleged defamatory imputations made by Priya Ramani on social media

#MeToo: SC declines urgent hearing of PIL asking for FIRs based on charges

A bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice S K Kaul said there was no need for an urgent hearing on the PIL

The long road to a safe workplace

The #metoo movement may have provided a wake-up call for leaders across India Inc to significantly up the ante in building safe and gender-balanced workplaces

#MeToo effect: Govt to form GoM to look into gaps in sexual harassment law

The development comes days after Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi proposed the formation of a legal panel to look into the issue

Raveena Tandon, Amole Gupte to be part of CINTAA's panel for #MeToo cases

The 'Me Too' movement gained momentum in India after Bollywood actor Tanushree Dutta accused Nata Patekar of allegedly misbehaving with her during a film shoot in 2008

Facing #MeToo allegations, M J Akbar resigns as MoS external affairs

Akbar has denied the allegations and on Monday filed a private criminal defamation complaint against journalist Priya Ramani

From iconic editor to #MeToo accused: M J Akbar's sudden and steep fall

Akbar has stepped down as minister of state for external affairs following the allegations levelled against him