20. The employer shall-
(a) provide a safe working environment at the workplace which will include safety from the employees of the establishment as well as third parties coming into contact at the workplace;
(b) display at any conspicuous place in the workplace the Office order made under sub-section (1) of section 4;
(c) undertake workshops and training programmes at regular intervals for sensitizing the members;
(d) provide necessary facilities to the Committee or the Local Committee, as the case may be, to deal with the complaint and conduct enquiry;
(e) ensure the attendance of respondent and witnesses before the Committee or the Local Committee, as the case may be;
(f) make available such information to the Committee or the Local Committee, as the case may be, as it may require with regard to the complaint made under sub-section (1) of section 7;
(g) Assist the woman if she so chooses in the filing of a criminal complaint in relation to the offence;
(h) Initiate criminal action under the Penal Code or any other law for the time being in force against the perpetrator after the conclusion of the enquiry, or without waiting for the enquiry, where the perpetrator is not an employee in the work place where the incident of sexual harassment has taken place.
21. Exemption of employer or manager from liability in certain cases
(1) establishment is charged with an offence against this Act or the rules or orders made thereunder, he shall be entitled upon complaint duly made by him to have any other person whom he charges as the actual offender brought before the Court at the time appointed for hearing the charge; and if, after the commission of the offence has been proved, the employer or manager of the establishment proves to the satisfaction of the Court-
(a) That he has used due diligence to enforce the execution of this Act, and
(b) That the said other person committed the offence in question without his knowledge consent or connivance, that other person shall be convicted if the offence and shall be liable to the like fine as if he were the employer or manager, and the employer or manager shall be discharged from any liability under this Act.
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