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Employees' State Insurance (General) (First) Amendment Regulations, 2020 Here is the update on ESI General Regulations, namely- Employees' State Insurance (General) (First) Amendment Regulations, 2020  It inserted Regulations 87A, 88A, 89C & 89D & Amended Form No 17 & 19 By this notifications Insured Woman expecting child or children need to communicate to the department for claiming Maternity Benefit. In case of miscarriage neither commissioning mother nor embryo carried woman shall be receiving maternity benefits from ESIC The Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) on March 18, 2020, publishes the Employees’ State Insurance (General) (First) Amendment Regulations, 2020 to further amend the Employees' State Insurance (General) Regulations, 1950. The amendments are as under: Ø   Insertion of Regulations: 1)       Regulation 87A Notice of Commissioning Mother 2)       Regulation 88A: Declaration by Insured Women of he

Covid19 & Compliance Risk - Just Do Online PF Filling In continuation of my previous post - Covid19 & Compliance Risk - No Work No Pay , please find another post on making your company complied from COVID19 Compliance Crises. EPFO Grace Period & ECR Payment Process The competent authority has decided to allow a grace period of 30 days (from 16.04.2020 to 15. 05 .2020 for filing of Electronic Challan cum Return (ECR) to the employers of those establishments which have disbursed the wages for March, 2020 to their employees. Simultaneously, Yes, the relief announced by the EPFO on the 30th of April, 2020 in regards to ECR process that ECR can now onwards be created by any employer without the need of simultaneous payment of contributions which may be paid later by the employer after creating the ECR. The ECR created by the employer furnishing the statutory information will not lapse and shall always be available at future date for reference to comp

Order On Withdrawal Of The Punjab Minimum Wages Notification Effective 1st Mar 2020 Government of Punjab, as per notification number No.ST/9408 had released the Minimum Wages for the State effective from 1st March 2020. In pursuance to the same, the Government of Punjab considering the emergent economic situation arising out of COVID-19 has issued an order withdrawing the notification number No.ST/9408 published on 1st May 2020 revising minimum wages effective 1st March 2020. Hence employer may continue to follow the existing minimum wages prevailing prior to the withdrawn notification till further notice from the Government of Punjab

To Pay or Not to pay! what to do? Please find the another write up. Which based on new order released by Ministry of Home Affair which lead employers  to hold payment. (Please Note- since drafting is done via mobile so it may be porn to typo error.) All employers are being misled and confused  by news & articles which is being published that they don’t have to pay full wages in lockdown as per new notification. This doesn’t mean that you don’t have to pay at all for entire period of lockdown , it only means from 18th May onwards it may not be compulsory to pay in these unprecedented times . Following options may be exercised- ·           Upto 17th May need to pay full wages for employees working / not working from home for non-essential services ·           For essential services , if the arrangements were done by employer to attend the workplace , if the worker still doesn’t attend , he may be marked absent or otherwise he needs to be paid wages