Supreme Court upholds amended employees’ pension scheme with modifications

Employees Provident Fund Organisation & Anr. Etc. Vs Sunil Kumar B. & Ors. Etc. (Supreme Court of India) The Apex Court on Friday upheld the amended Employees’ Pension Scheme (EPS), which caps the basic salary of an employee at Rs 15,000 a month for the pension component derived from it to be calculated. A Bench comprising Chief Justice of India Uday Umesh Lalit, Justice Aniruddha Bose, and Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia has allowed the appeals of the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation and the Union government challenging the judgments of the High Courts of Kerala, Rajasthan, and Del...