Corporate Law : Key Labour law rulings in November 2024: ESI, ID Act, Provident Fund, and more across various High Courts....
Corporate Law : Learn about EPFO & ESIC registration, applicability, and the step-by-step process for compliance. Ensure social security for your ...
Corporate Law : Article explains EPFO's 2024 updates including automatic PF transfer, salary limit revisions & employer contributions. Stay compli...
Corporate Law : Understand the Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) - its applicability, contribution rules, taxation benefits, and investment insights...
Finance : Learn how to activate your UAN with our easy step-by-step guide. Access various EPFO services like checking PF balance, updating ...
Corporate Law : EPFO has streamlined the PF transfer process, eliminating employer approval for most claims, aiming to reduce turnaround time and ...
Finance : CBI apprehends CGST Superintendent in Indore for Rs. 15K bribe and EPFO officials in Baddi for Rs. 10 lakh bribe. Investigations a...
Corporate Law : EPFO directs employers to activate UAN for employees via Aadhaar OTP to ensure access to benefits under government schemes by Nove...
Corporate Law : The Ministry of Labour & Employment held a meeting on the ELI scheme to enhance workforce formalization and social security, urgin...
Company Law : Explore the challenges faced by newly incorporated companies regarding mandatory ESI and EPF registrations in India, with proposed...
Corporate Law : NCLT Allahabad directs Successful Resolution Applicant (SRA) to match total value of resolution plan with liquidation value in cas...
Income Tax : Ahmedabad ITAT rules in favor of Mehsana Urban Co-op. Bank Ltd., stating AO's incorrect calculation isn't failure to disclose, thu...
Income Tax : Read how ITAT Chennai directs re-adjudication in the dispute over remittance of employees' contributions towards Provident Fund an...
Corporate Law : Allahabad High Court directs CBI to furnish post-trap/arrest memo to Puneet Singh, accused in EPFO bribery case. Get detailed insi...
Income Tax : Explore the ITAT Mumbai ruling in KMTC (India) Pvt Ltd vs CIT(A) case. Learn about deductions for employee contributions to PF & E...
Corporate Law : IBBI penalizes insolvency professional S. Muthuraju for negligence in handling EPFO claims during liquidation. Read the full disci...
Corporate Law : EPFO clarifies policies on pension computation, trust rules, arrears, and damages in higher wages cases per Ministry of Labour & E...
Corporate Law : EPFO centralises pension disbursement through CPPS. Claims processed with any bank across India. Instructions for smooth pension c...
Corporate Law : EPFO deploys functionality for capturing data of Non-EPS members. UAN generation and activation mandatory for all P.F. Trust membe...
Corporate Law : EPFO introduces a delinking facility for erroneous Member IDs from UAN. Follow steps via unified portal to correct linked details....
Instances have been noticed in which the officers conducting inquiries u/s 7A have issued orders to attach/freeze bank accounts of the establishments/ personal accounts of the employers for alleged non-appearance in such inquiries. Such practices have attracted a lot of adverse observations from Constitutional Courts and other quarters.
Shri Gangwar launched virtual hearing facility in quasi-judicial cases under EPF & MP Act, 1952 through Video conferencing. Amendment approved in Employees’ Deposit Linked Insurance Scheme, to enhance maximum assurance benefit to Rs. 7 lakh from the present benefit of Rs. 6 lakh
NASSCOM, a not-for-profit industry association, is the apex body for the 180 billion dollar IT BPM industry in India, an industry that had made a phenomenal contribution to India’s GDP, exports, employment, infrastructure and global visibility. In India, this industry provides the highest employment in the private sector.
The provisional payroll data published by EPFO on 20th August 2020 reveals that the subscriber base of EPFO increased by around 8.47 lakh members during the first quarter of FY21. The COVID-19 pandemic outbreak had adversely affected the enrolments in the month of April and May 2020.
CBI has arrested an Accounts Officer and an Enforcement officer, both working in EPFO, Noida (Uttar Pradesh) for demanding & accepting bribe of Rs.Eight Lakh from the complainant.
CS Lily Bali We all know that provident fund is a welfare scheme for employees and where both employer and employee contribute their part but it’s a liability of employer to deposit whole part. Employer deducted the employee share from the salary of the employee. PERCENTAGE OF CONTRIBUTION: Both employee and employer are required to […]
THE EMPLOYEES’ PROVIDENT FUNDS AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS ACT, 1952 An Act to Provide for the institution of provident funds, Pension Fund and deposit- linked insurance fund for employees in factories and other establishments. Section 1(3) of the act defines the Eligibility criteria for EPF registration: 1. Establishment which is a factory engaged in any industry […]
It is directed that in the events of any incidents of industrial accidents resulting in death of employees of a covered establishment, the concerned RPFC (in-charge of RO) is required to take immediate initiative to settle death claims of the concerned members.
It is announced for general information that during the year 2020-2021, accumulations at the credit of subscribers to the General Provident Fund and other similar funds shall carry interest at the rate of 7.1% (Seven point one percent) w.e.f. 1st July, 2020 to 30th September, 2020. This rate will be in force w.e.f. 1st July, 2020. The funds concerned are:
To extend the availability and reach of online services, which have become crucial in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, EPFO updated Know your Customer (KYC) data for its 52.62 lakh subscribers in the month of April and May 2020.
