THE EMPLOYEES STATE INSURANCE

ESIC too may be allowed to invest 15% of corpus in mutual funds, stocks

The ESIC corpus currently stands at over ₹90,000 crore. Of this, over ₹23,000 crore is earmarked as reserve fund, while the rest is investe...

ESIC to run all new hospitals by itself for better delivery of medical services

“In view of demand from both workers and employees and with the objective to provide better medical services to beneficiaries, ESI Corporat...

ESIC relaxes norms for availing health services in private hospitals in emergency cases

ESIC subscribers would be able to visit empanelled as well as non-empanelled private hospitals for emergency treatment.

Centre proposes to run all new hospitals planned by ESIC instead of handing them to states

The Centre is proposing to run all new hospitals planned by the Employees’ State Insurance Corporation instead of handing them to state gov...

Employees' State Insurance Corporation scheme adds 11.49 lakh new members in September

Gross new enrolments with the ESIC were 8.27 lakh in June, 4.87 lakh in May and 2.62 lakh in April, showing an increase in enrolments after...

Government eases claim criteria under unemployment scheme

However, if the documents are not uploaded at the time of online filing of the claim, the claimant will submit the printout of the claim du...

ESIC beneficiaries will soon be able to utilise healthcare facilities under Ayushman Bharat

The move will benefit 13.5 crore beneficiaries under the Employees’ State Insurance Corporation by enabling them to use healthcare faciliti...

Employees’ State Insurance Corporation kick-starts work on social security scheme for organised workers

The organisation, under the labour ministry, has written to states to speed up creation of requisite medical infrastructure in 161 district...

Employees’ State Insurance Corporation kick-starts work on social security scheme for organised workers

The organisation, under the labour ministry, has written to states to speed up creation of requisite medical infrastructure in 161 district...

Govt amends ESIC contribution norms, increases maternity benefit entitlement to members

“In the Employees’ State Insurance (Central) Rules, 1950, rule 51B shall be omitted,” it said in a gazette notification. Rule 51 B of the E...

Wage relief for those who lost jobs in lockdown

The move is seen as an outreach to those displaced by the lockdown and blunt the criticism that the government did not take care of migrant...

ESIC issues comprehensive guidelines for employers, workers to prevent spread of Covid-19

According to the statement, these guidelines are about the structural and administrative measures and human resource policies that can be u...

Recovery in formal job market pushes EPFO enrolments to 8.45 lakh in July

The payroll data, released by the ministry of statistics and programme implementation on Friday, shows the members exiting the EPFO scheme ...

SBI includes Covid-19 treatment under medical insurance scheme for retired employees

The country's largest bank has also made four other diseases including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)/asthma eligible for hos...

Health insurance, maternity benefits for unorganised sector workers in the works

Currently, Employees State Insurance Corporation benefits are available only to registered employees of covered establishments, those havin...

Govt may retrospectively relax conditions for unemployment benefits under Employees’ State Insurance

The labour ministry has moved a proposal to amend the conditions under the Atal Beemit Vyakti Kalyan Yojana from March, when the government...

Employees State Insurance Corporation extends deadline for filing insurance contribution

"Considering the hardship being faced by employers, the period for filing ESI contribution for the month of February has been further exten...