Employees Enrolment Campaign 2017 offers opportunity to employers to voluntarily declare details of all employees.
EPFO settles 19,114 grievances in January, 2017
EPFO launched Employees Enrolment Campaign 2017
offering opportunity to the employers to voluntarily declare details of
all employees hitherto deprived of social security benefits under EPFO.
The declaration scheme is operational between January 1st 2017 to March 31st 2017. Under the Scheme: The
employees’ share of contributions if declared by the employer as not
deducted shall stand waived. The damages to be paid by the employer in
respect of the employer in respect of the employees for whom declaration
has been made under this campaign shall be at the rate of Rupee One per
annum. No administrative charges shall be collected from the employer
in respect of the contribution made under the declaration. A declaration
can be made under the Campaign for the period for which no inquiry
under Section 7A has been initiated.
EPFO
has provided facility for online declaration under the Principal
Employer section of EPFO portal which facilities the implementation of
the Employees’ Enrolment Campaign. After declaration, the payments are
to be remitted by the employer through month-wise ECRs for the entire
past period of enrolments.
To
facilitate enhanced services, furnishing of Aadhar has now been made
mandatory for members and pensioners of the Employee’s Pension Scheme.
Furnishing of Aadhar seeded bank accounts as well as Aadaar by EPF
members would facilitate better identification as well as consolidation
of EPF accounts linked with various spells of employment of EPF members.
This would allow offering any time anywhere services to EPF members.
ECR
2.0 has been operationlized and the principal employer can view details
of contractor establishment’s compliance status. This will help all
employees, particularly contract employees, becoming aware of any
non-compliance by their employer/contractor as they shall be immediately
receiving SMSs whenever a contribution is credited into their account.
In
January 2017, EPFO settled 19,114 grievance leaving 2,556 as pending.
Out of the pending grievances, 2,206 were pending for less than seven
days.
As
a part of next phase of computerization, EPFO is moving towards a
centralized receipt and payment, system. EPFO has entered into banking
arrangements with multiple banks. Once operationlized, this would also
facilitate automation of compilation of financial information as
required for compiling the organizational balance sheet and other
monitoring reports.
BCK/AK
(Release ID :158473)
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