Learn How We Ensure a Safe Workplace For Women

At Magic Bus India Foundation, we are committed to ensuring that the work environment at all our locations is conducive to fair, safe, harmonious relations between employees. Discrimination and harassment of any type are strictly prohibited. We are also committed to ensuring that no employee is disadvantaged due to gender discrimination.

To ensure absolute clarity on the important and sensitive issue of sexual harassment, this note outlines the organization’s approach to the issue and its policy for addressing any related incidents pertaining to this.

Scope
This policy applies to all individuals employed in a permanent, contractual, or temporary capacity at any location of Magic Bus India Foundation.

Definition of Issue
A broad definition of sexual harassment is as follows: any physical or verbal behaviour 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:

• Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favours, display of sex- related visuals, audios, pornographic or obscene material, and any other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature.
• Transmitting any message by mail, telephone, email, etc., that is obscene, lewd, suggestive, or blatantly sexual in nature.
• Any explicit or implicit communication wherein a sexual favor or demand, whether by words or actions, is made a condition for an individual’s employment, career progress, promotion, etc.
• Sexually charged jokes or remarks and behaviour that have sexually oriented innuendoes.
• Consistent pattern of unnecessary physical contact, staring, or targeting unreasonable attention at an individual in day- to-day dealings.
• Any pervasive pattern of behaviour that makes employees uncomfortable, insecure, or feel humiliated or disadvantaged on the basis of gender differentiation.
• Actual sexual assault.

This is an indicative and not an exhaustive list of the possible forms sexual harassment can take.

Organization Policy on Sexual Harassment
The organization policy is to totally prohibit any form of sexual harassment. This applies equally to relations between superior and subordinates as well as between peers. Any incident of sexual harassment will be viewed extremely seriously. A complaint or report of sexual harassment will be immediately investigated, and appropriate action will be taken against the offending employee or employees. Such action will depend on the nature and seriousness of the offence and will include strict disciplinary action, including termination of service.