The Prevention of Sexual Harassment Act, 2013 requires every Indian employer with 10 or more employees to meet a comprehensive set of obligations: a written policy, a properly constituted Internal Complaints Committee, documented training for all employees, a formal complaint resolution process with statutory timelines, and an annual report filed with the District Officer. Most organisations understand the importance of these requirements — the challenge is implementing all of them cohesively, without it becoming a sprawling, expensive, and fragmented exercise.
That is the problem POSHready was built to solve.
The Compliance Burden Is Real
Consider what the POSH Act actually demands of an employer. The list is neither short nor simple:
- Policy drafting — A comprehensive anti-sexual harassment policy that covers definitions, scope, complaint procedures, timelines, disciplinary actions, and confidentiality provisions. This is not a template exercise; the policy must reflect the organisation’s specific structure, industry, and workforce composition.
- ICC formation — A committee that meets Section 4’s composition requirements: a presiding officer who is a senior woman employee, at least two internal members committed to women’s causes, and an external member from an NGO or legal background. Tenure must be tracked; conflicts of interest must be declared.
- Employee training — Every employee, from the shop floor to the boardroom, must understand what constitutes sexual harassment, how to report it, and what protections exist. Training must be documented and periodically refreshed.
- Complaint handling — A structured process with statutory timelines: 3 working days for ICC acknowledgment, completion of inquiry within 90 days, employer action within 60 days of receiving the ICC’s recommendations. Every stage must be recorded.
- Annual reporting — The ICC must file an annual report with the employer and the District Officer, covering the number of complaints received, disposed, and pending, along with the nature of actions taken.
Each of these obligations has its own complexity, its own documentation requirements, and its own failure modes.
Where the Gaps Typically Emerge
Even organisations with the best intentions often end up with a fragmented approach to compliance. An HR consultant drafts the policy. A training vendor delivers a half-day workshop. A law firm is retained for ICC advice. Complaints are tracked in spreadsheets. Annual reports are assembled manually from disparate records. None of these individual pieces are wrong — but they do not connect, and the gaps between them are where compliance risk lives.
The most common challenges include:
- No single source of truth. Policy documents live in shared drives, training records sit with the vendor, complaint files are in email threads. Nobody has a unified view of the organisation’s compliance posture.
- No audit trail. When a complaint arises or an inspection occurs, reconstructing the timeline of actions taken — and proving that statutory deadlines were met — becomes an exercise in forensic document assembly.
- Manual processes everywhere. ICC meeting minutes are typed up in Word. SLA tracking is done on calendar reminders. Certificate generation is a batch job someone remembers to run quarterly. Each manual step is a point of failure.
- Inconsistent quality. The policy drafted by one consultant may not align with the training delivered by another vendor. The ICC’s understanding of procedures may differ from what employees were told. Gaps emerge, and they tend to surface at the worst possible moment.
What most organisations need is not more vendors or more effort — they need a single platform that brings the entire compliance lifecycle together.
POSHready: One Platform, Six Modules
POSHready is an integrated POSH compliance platform that consolidates every obligation under the Act into a single, auditable portal. It is built for Indian companies — from 10-employee startups to enterprises with thousands of workers across multiple locations. The platform comprises six modules, each addressing a distinct compliance requirement.
Module 1: Employee Onboarding
Registration begins with a guided onboarding wizard that walks the company through setup step by step. Employees can be added individually or in bulk via Excel upload. Each employee automatically receives credentials for both the POSHready portal and the integrated learning management system. There is no separate provisioning step, no manual account creation, and no coordination with a third-party training vendor.
Module 2: POSH Training and Certification
Training is delivered through Bodhi LMS, integrated directly into the platform. Employees complete structured online modules at their own pace, followed by assessment quizzes that verify comprehension. Upon completion, timestamped certificates are automatically generated and stored in the system — available for audit at any time.
The HR dashboard provides a real-time view of training completion rates across the organisation: who has completed training, who is in progress, and who has not started. This is the POSH compliance management visibility that most organisations lack entirely.
Module 3: AI-Powered Policy Generation
The policy module replaces the traditional cycle of consultant engagement, draft review, and iterative revision with a structured, AI-assisted process. A 9-step guided wizard captures the organisation’s specific requirements: gender scope of the policy, whether anonymous complaints are permitted, the range of disciplinary actions, appeal mechanisms, and other configurable provisions.
The AI engine then generates a professional POSH policy document tailored to the company’s inputs. A separate AI-based compliance verification layer checks the generated document against the requirements of the POSH Act, flagging any gaps or inconsistencies. Before the policy goes live, a human expert — the POSHready super admin — conducts a manual review.
The final policy is available for DOCX download. Version history is maintained, and the platform tracks employee acknowledgment of the policy, creating a documented record that every employee has received and reviewed the current version.
Module 4: ICC Setup and Management
The ICC management software module guides organisations through the formation of their Internal Complaints Committee in compliance with Section 4. The wizard validates composition requirements in real time: it ensures a presiding officer is designated (who must be a senior woman employee), that the required number of internal members is met, and that an external member is included.
External members can be invited via email. If the organisation does not have an existing relationship with a suitable external member, POSHready can assist in identifying and connecting one — removing a common bottleneck in ICC formation.
The module tracks tenure periods for all ICC members, manages conflict-of-interest declarations, and maintains a complete record of committee composition changes over time.
Module 5: Complaint Management and SLA Tracking
This is the operational core of the platform. Employees can file complaints through the portal, with the option to file anonymously where the company’s policy permits it.
Each complaint follows a 9-stage workflow:
- Intake — complaint is received and logged
- Triage — preliminary assessment and ICC assignment
- Conciliation — if requested by the complainant, before formal inquiry
- Inquiry — formal investigation by the ICC
- Findings — ICC arrives at its conclusions
- Recommendations — ICC submits recommendations to the employer
- Action — employer implements recommended action
- Appeal — window for appeal, if applicable
- Closing — case is formally closed and archived
Statutory SLA timelines are automatically tracked at each stage. The system flags approaching deadlines before they are breached, not after. Stage reports can be generated at any point. Evidence and supporting documents are uploaded and attached to the case record. Formal PDF letters — acknowledgment of complaint, notice to respondent, inquiry summons, final order — are auto-generated at the appropriate stages.
The result is a complete POSH solution with a full audit trail for every complaint, from intake to closure, with every action timestamped and every document preserved.
Module 6: Dashboards and Reporting
The compliance dashboard provides a real-time overview of the organisation’s status: training completion rates, active case pipeline, SLA adherence, ICC composition validity, and policy acknowledgment coverage. This is the single-pane view that compliance officers and HR leaders need but rarely have.
The POSH annual report module generates the statutory report required for submission to the State Women’s Commission or District Officer — populated automatically from the platform’s data, eliminating the manual assembly process that consumes weeks of effort at most organisations.
Pricing
POSHready offers two plan types, designed around the reality that organisations have different starting points:
- Training Only — Rs 700 per user. Covers employee onboarding, LMS access, training modules, quizzes, and certificate generation. Suited for organisations that have existing policy and ICC arrangements but need a scalable training solution.
- Full Compliance — Rs 35,000 base fee plus Rs 500 per user. Covers all six modules: onboarding, training, AI-powered policy generation, ICC setup and management, complaint handling, dashboards, and annual reporting. This is the complete POSH compliance platform for organisations that want a single, integrated solution.
From Registration to Go-Live in Under Two Hours
The platform is designed so that a company can register, add its employees, set up its ICC, generate its POSH policy, and go live — all within a single session. The onboarding wizard, bulk upload tools, and AI policy engine eliminate the weeks of elapsed time that traditional approaches require.
This is not a claim about cutting corners. It is a statement about what becomes possible when every step is digitised, guided, and integrated into a single workflow rather than scattered across consultants, vendors, and manual processes.
Certified and Auditable
POSHready is built by an ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certified organisation. Data security, process quality, and audit readiness are not afterthoughts — they are foundational to the platform’s architecture. For organisations operating in regulated industries or those preparing for external audits, this certification provides an additional layer of assurance.
Getting Started
POSH compliance has historically required coordinating multiple vendors, consultants, and manual processes. POSHready consolidates the entire lifecycle — policy, training, ICC, complaints, reporting — into one platform with one login, one audit trail, and one dashboard.
Whether your organisation is starting from zero or looking to replace a patchwork of existing arrangements, the path forward is straightforward: register on POSHready, walk through the onboarding wizard, and bring your organisation into full compliance.
To get started, visit poshready.org. For organisations with specific requirements or questions about enterprise deployment, contact our sales team for a guided walkthrough.