Panel backs elevating month-to-month EPFO wage ceiling to ₹21,000


A high-level committee has backed a proposed improve in wage ceiling beneath the Staff’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) to ₹21,000 a month from the present ₹15,000.

The committee has, nonetheless, stated the federal government can implement the rise from a later date contemplating all inputs.

The proposal, as soon as applied, will deliver an estimated 7.5 million extra employees throughout the fold of the scheme, and in addition alter for the rise in wages because the final revision was performed in 2014.

“The ad-hoc committee on EPFO protection has agreed to boost (waged beneath) EPF Act to align with ESI institution,” a senior authorities official instructed ET, including that it has instructed the implementation to be thought of at a later stage and never instantly.

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The suggestion, if accepted by the central board of the trustees of EPFO, will give a breather to the employers who’re reluctant to right away tackle any extra monetary burden.

Employers had of their consultations cited stress on their stability sheets because of the outbreak of the pandemic and sought extra time for implementing the proposed improve.

It would even be a reduction for the exchequer because the Centre at the moment pays about ₹6,750 crore yearly to the Staff’ Pension Scheme of the EPFO. The federal government contributes 1.16% of the whole primary wage of EPFO subscribers in the direction of the scheme.

Underneath the present guidelines, any firm with greater than 20 workers should register with the EPFO and the EPF scheme is obligatory for all workers incomes lower than ₹15,000.

The rise within the restrict to ₹21,000 will deliver extra employees beneath the retirement scheme. It would additionally align the ceiling with the opposite social safety scheme Staff’ State Insurance coverage Company (ESIC) the place the restrict is ₹21,000.

KE Raghunathan, an employer’s consultant on the central board of the trustees of the EPFO, stated there’s a consensus throughout the EPFO that comparable norms must be adopted for offering social safety beneath each EPFO and ESIC.

“Staff mustn’t lose out on the advantages of their social safety due to the distinction in norms beneath the 2 schemes,” he stated.

Labour unions are, nonetheless, apprehensive the choice could take a really very long time to implement.

“Numerous hurdles are in the best way to implement this together with the required approval from the finance ministry,” a commerce union consultant stated requesting to not be recognized.

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