Kuzhu's POSH and grievance module gives the Internal Committee a confidential case file: complaints go only to the committee's members, notifications carry no details, anonymous concerns use an access code tied to no account, and the yearly report under Rule 14 of the POSH Rules comes out as a workbook. Other workplace grievances go to a separate grievance committee.
Why it exists
The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Act, 2013 (the POSH Act) requires every employer with ten or more employees to have an Internal Committee, a way to receive complaints and a record of how each was handled. Most companies meet it with an email address and a folder. Kuzhu's POSH and grievance module gives the committee a proper case file and keeps it confidential by design.
A complaint is raised from the web or the phone and goes only to the members of the Internal Committee. Not HR in general, not the managing director, not a super administrator: the case contents are visible to the committee alone, notifications say that a case needs attention without saying what it is about, and the case keeps its own log of who opened it. For concerns someone is not ready to put their name to, an anonymous route uses an access code that is not linked to any account.
The same module handles workplace grievances that are not POSH matters, through a grievance committee, so complaints about pay, conduct or working conditions get an owner, a timeline and a recorded outcome instead of a conversation in a corridor. Each case carries a number from its own series, so the company can account for every complaint it received.
The outcome
“Every complaint has a file, and only the committee can open it.”
Only the committee can open it.
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People › POSH › Committees
Meera Iyer
Presiding officer, IC
Priya Nair
IC member
Rohit Verma
IC member
Anita Desai
IC member
Before
Complaints sent to a shared HR mailbox
With Kuzhu
Only committee members can open a case
People › POSH › Committees
Meera Iyer
Presiding officer, IC
Priya Nair
IC member
Rohit Verma
IC member
Anita Desai
IC member
Before
Complaints sent to a shared HR mailbox
With Kuzhu
Only committee members can open a case
How it works
Most teams have this live inside the first month — the workspace exists on day one, and week three is a parallel run against whatever you use today.
The committee records statements, documents and hearings in the case file. Notifications carry no details, and the phone screen blocks screenshots.
Findings, recommendations and actions are recorded with dates, so the case file shows what was decided and when.
The yearly report under Rule 14 of the POSH Rules comes out as a workbook for the employer to send to the District Officer, built from the cases without opening any of them to people outside the committee.
Worth a closer look
Buyer questions
2 answers
The answer
A POSH case that HR, IT or a director can quietly read is not confidential, whatever the policy says. In Kuzhu the access rule is structural: only the members of the relevant committee can open a case, the workspace audit log does not copy case contents, and each case keeps its own access log. A complainant can trust the process because the system, not a promise, decides who sees what.
The answer
The POSH Act covers sexual harassment of women at the workplace and gives the Internal Committee specific duties. Other complaints, from anyone, about anything else, belong in a grievance process. Kuzhu keeps the two separate, each with its own committee and its own record series, so a POSH case is never handled as an ordinary grievance and a grievance does not wait in the Internal Committee's queue.
Questions
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Only the members of the Internal Committee. Super administrators and HR outside the committee cannot open the case, and notifications do not reveal what a case is about.
Yes, as an anonymous concern with an access code that is not tied to their account. They use the code to follow the concern and reply to the committee.
Yes. Grievances go to a separate grievance committee with its own case series, so they are tracked to an outcome in the same way.
Kuzhu gives you the case handling, confidentiality and records the Act expects, and POSH awareness training in the training module. It also prepares the Rule 14 annual report as a workbook. The legal duties themselves, such as constituting the committee with an external member and sending the report to the District Officer, remain the employer's.
Yes, from the Speak up screen in the Kuzhu app, which blocks screenshots while it is open.
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