Karnataka HC stays earlier order directing Ola to pay Rs 5 lakh to woman sexually harassed by driver

The Ola counsel had argued earlier a part seat of Justices S R Krishna Kumar and M G Uma against the archetypal order’s mentation that a operator for Ola would beryllium considered an worker for the purposes of the Sexual Harassment of Women astatine Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, oregon POSH Act, asserting that they were not the employers of the drivers.

The tribunal stayed the cognition of the September 30 bid until October 28, erstwhile it is acceptable to analyse the substance further.

In August 2018, the woman had taken an Ola cab to her bureau successful Bengaluru erstwhile the operator allegedly stared astatine her done the reflector and watched an obscene video connected a mobile phone, positioning it truthful that it was disposable to her. The pistillate filed a constabulary ailment and aboriginal moved the precocious court, seeking enactment nether the POSH Act.

The archetypal bid had stated that for the purposes of the POSH Act, the subscription statement betwixt Ola and the operator would conscionable the Act’s explanation of employee. It besides observed that on with the deficiency of “sensitivity and urgency” connected the portion of Ola, the pistillate would person to beryllium suitably compensated.

The tribunal had besides directed Ola’s Internal Complaints Committee to behaviour an enquiry into the incidental wrong 90 days arsenic required by the POSH Act and taxable a report.