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Nilesh Shah   18 October 2008 at 10:02

Amendment to Employees' Provident Fund Scheme,1052

Nilesh Shah asks a query:
Cell: 92246-59941

E Mail; nilesh63@vsnl.com

Recently i.e in the last week of September,2008 there are amendments carried out to Employees' Provident Fund Scheme 1952 whereby after paragraph 82, paragraph 83 is inserted; and

Paragraph 26, 26A and 26B are substituted.

I will be grateful if someone can make us all aware of the consequences of the aforesaid amendment.

Yours Sincerely,

Nilesh Shah

Sandeep   17 October 2008 at 10:28

Applicability of Gratuity


DEar All,

I just wanna know I had worked with a org. for 4 yrs and 252 days. As per the reference of Madras High court judgement I think I am applicable for the Gratuity Payment.

Just wanna have your comments. My employer is not ready to pay the same as per them the judgement is in other contents.

Pls reply.

bharani   16 October 2008 at 18:04

Employment of women after 7 P.M

We are textile company we are having majority of women workers due to tight schedule we are engaging women workers after 7 P.M Is this Legal?
What happened to Sec.66 (1) (B) of The Factories Act 1948.
Whether we employ women workers after 7 P.M
We are running one shift only the timings are 9.30 A.M TO 6.30P.M

tc baskaran   16 October 2008 at 10:49

ESI APPLICABLE FOR AMCs & SUBCONTRACTORS

1. We are having subcontractors who will do our parts machined outside (without our supervision) and supply to us. Some of them are having ESI registration and some of them are not. Also please note that they are having number of customers.

2. We have covered Annual Maintenance Contract for maintenance of our machinery and computers. They do not have ESI registeration.

For the above two subjects, Whether Principal Employer should cover / pay the ESI contribution or not necessary. Please clarify.

Vikas Kr. Sinha   15 October 2008 at 17:00

Recongnised and Unrecognised Union

Dear Experts,

Kindly let me know a citation of a Supreme Court Judgement that:

**** Unrecognised Union cannot spouse the Dispute of "General Nature", which relates to all the workmen.

TS Bhatia   14 October 2008 at 12:41

retenchment compensation

What is the legal formality for making retrenchment of workers in factory ?

A.R.KUPPUSAMI   13 October 2008 at 20:19

EMPLOYEES' PROVIDENT FUND AND MISCELLENEOUS ACT, 1952.

Please give a case wise explanation:

Case No:1) If a Company covered w.e.f. retrospective date, the payment of E.P.F dues assessed for the whole period and submitted along with EPF coverage application- The Company is covered from the date as assumed in the application- Is the Company is liable to pay the penal damages and interest from the date of coverage even the payment made at the time of filing coverage application?

Case No:2)While forwarding the coverage details to the Company- Normally the EPF Officials fill the Coverage memo and advice to remit the contribution within a stipulated time limit- The above case covered retrospectively for instance one year before the date of filing coverage application- The Company remits the EPF dues within the stipulated period/or not remitted the contribution within the stipulated time limit and make a delayed payment like 90 days- Is there any Policy or Act to compute and remit the Damages and Interest from the date of coverage or
from the date advised in the Coverage memo
under what basis? accordance with law, Para 32A has given a schedule of rate of damages for delayed days- is the damages and interest is applicable for the pre-discovery period(Pre-discovery period means: The date of retrospective coverage to the date of advise sent to the Company)

Case No:3) In accordance with EPF Act Para 32A, clearly denotes that the recovery of damages for default in payment of any contribution, may recover from the employer as below:
Less than 2 months 17% per annum
Two months and ^ but
less than 4 months 22% ---do---
like wise, Is there any provision or discretionary power to the EPF Officials to compute less than 17% even the time limit exceeds 120 days?
Expecting a favourable reply from the experts.
with regards
A.R.KUPPUSAMI

Adv.Shine Thomas   11 October 2008 at 22:21

Provident Fund

Please help me

The provident fund office communicated to an educational institution to pay 10% of the wages of the employees and employer when the total number of employees were below 20 in the year 2003. The strength of the employees later became more than 20, but the school authorities continued to pay the 10% of salary instead of 12%, which is the statutory limit. Now the inspectors found the mistake after these years and to direct the school authorities to pay the arrears of extra 2%, which now come more than 2 lakhs.But the problem is that many number of employees are releaved from the school and joined in other institutions and hence cannot get money from them.

How can the school authorities be saved from paying the extra 2% ? Any case laws?, Any rulings from any courts or tribunals in favour of the institution.

rkchopra   07 October 2008 at 18:45

Denial of medical, pensionary benefits to VRS optees

IFCI (having its registered office at 61,Nehru Place ,New Delhi-110 019),a Public Financial Institution, originally established as a statutory corporation by an Act of Parliament in 1948(15 of 1948) and the first Government Institution converted into a company at the threshold of liberalization by another Act of Parliament i.e. The Industrial Finance Corporation (Transfer of Undertaking and Repeal) Act,1993, No 23 of 1993 is for all practical purposes an instrument of the Government Of India(GOI has recently directly extended IFCI loans/grants amounting to more than Rs. 5000 crores spreading over 2002/03 -2010/11)

The Section 8 of the above said Repeal Act explicitly protects the service conditions of the employees. The position was reaffirmed by the then Honorable Finance Minister of India on the floor of Lok Sabha on 3rd July, 1998 in reply to an Unstarred Question No 2786

Now IFCI in gross violation of three decades old policy of following Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI) in relation to pay scales, pension and other service conditions, by shifting the cut-off date of revision of pay scales , has deliberately denied its 286 retirees their revised due pension, outstanding wages, medical and other related benefits.

Under the circumstances and based on above facts, what VRS optees (who are mostly senior citizens) can do so that they can get releif in a shortest period without incurring much expenditure. For any further informaion pl contact Mr Handa at 9868338030

KamalNayanSaxena   05 October 2008 at 19:38

MAINTAINABILITY OF WRIT

What is the scope of writ petition against nongovernment organisation,in the case of dismissal of a workman. Natural justice has been denied to him.

Please post the latest case law