MUMBAI: After more than a month of national lockdown, both employers and employees have eased into a new way of working — work from home (WFH) With new learnings emerging, WFH, a concept that was otherwise shunned by many and adopted by few, has gained more acceptance and is expected to become the new norm even […]
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Government of India vide Taxation and Other Laws (Relaxation of Certain Provisions) Ordinance, 2020 on 31.03.2020. notified relief measures related to Income Tax return filings, GST compliance, PAN-Aadhar linkage and other statutory and regulatory issues. Income Tax Act 1961 also covers under the Specified Act as per Para 2 of the ordinance. Extension of TDS Return (Q4 )
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New Delhi: Domestic workers should be brought under the purview of labour laws, allowing them social security and other benefits, a parliamentary panel has recommended. The standing committee on labour, headed by BJD MP Bhartruhari Mahtab, has said it is high time domestic service and domestic workers get the benefits of various labour laws. In its report
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The report said gross enrolments of new subscribers with ESIC were 1.49 crore during 2018-19. It also showed that during the period from September 2017 to February 2020, around 3.75 crore new subscribers joined the ESIC scheme. Around 11.56 lakh new members joined the ESIC-run social security scheme in February 2020 against 12.06 lakh members
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Ludhiana-based association of hand tools manufacturers, comprising 41 MSMEs, has moved the Supreme Court seeking quashing the government’s March 29 order asking private establishments to pay full wages to their workers during the Covid-19 lockdown. Stating that the Ministry of Home Affairs passed orders without due care and deliberation on the financial implications for employers,
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), via a circular dated April 13, clarified that employers will have to deduct TDS from salary for FY 2020-21 as per the tax regime – new or old – chosen by the employee. If an employee wants to go for the new tax regime he/she must inform the employer of
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New Delhi: Labour Secretary Heeralal Samariya on Wednesday ruled out appropriating funds of the Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) for payment of wages to workers or to employers to meet their salary bill during the coronavirus lockdown. There has been lobbying for sometime for using funds of the retirement fund body EPFO as well as
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Gujarat Minimum wage revised with Rs. 14.10 w.e.f 01.04.2020 ZONE-I Skilled – 293 + 56.5 = 349.5 Semi skilled – 284 + 56.5 = 340.5 Unskilled – 276 + 56.5 = 332.5 ZONE-II Skilled – 284 + 56.5 = 340.5 Semi skilled – 276 + 56.5 = 332.5 Skilled – 268 + 56.5 = 324.5
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The government has made it mandatory for all employers which resume functioning as the lockdown gets over, to provide medical insurance to their employees. Roopam Asthana, CEO and Director, Liberty General Insurance said that earlier it was not mandatory for all employers to provide health insurance cover to their employees. “However, some employers were buying ‘Group Health Insurance’ from insurance companies
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