ESI Act should be given "liberal interpretation": Supreme Court, says it is a social welfare legislationWhile dealing with an appeal filed by the ESI Corporation against the February 2021 verdict passed by the high court of the state of Telang...
BCCI is a 'shop', provisions of Employees State Insurance Act applicable: Supreme CourtThe top court said ESI Act is welfare legislation enacted by the Centre and a narrow meaning should not be attached to the words used in th...
Govt to provide medical coverage, other benefits under Employees State Insurance schemeOnce notifications for ESI coverage are issued by the respective states/ UTs, the casual and contractual workers working with municipal bod...
Virus outbreak: Government gives more time for ESI contributionThe government has given employees and employers more time to submit their monthly insurance contribution by relaxing provisions of the Emp...
ESIC partners with PMJAY to provide medical facilities to beneficiaries“ESIC has recently taken initiative viz. partnership with PMJAY – Ayushman Bharat to provide medical care to ESIC beneficiaries in 102 desi...
Government proposes to enhance wage ceiling for dependent parentsThe draft notification comes following a decision of the ESIC board in February this year in this regard.
Now, 35 lakh more workers come under Employees' State Insurance's purviewThe government, in principle, decided to enhance the threshold limit of wage for coverage under the ESI Act, 1948 from existing Rs 15,000 p...
Law Ministry vetting Bill to amend EPF & MP ActThe proposal to provide an option to choose between EPF and NPS for over 5 crore subscribers of the retirement fund body EPFO has been sent...
Trade unions reject proposal to discuss Employees' State Insurance (Amendment) Bill"I urge trade unions to come up with specific objections to the proposed amendment and we will tread with caution," labour minister Dattatr...
Karnataka and Chhattisgarh agree to implement Labour Ministry's wider access programmeLabour Ministry's initiative aims to provide medical facilities to potential ESI beneficiaries where it may not be feasible for state govts...
'2 states agree to implement Labour Ministry's wider access initiative'"The governments of Karnataka and Chhattisgarh have agreed to implement the initiative on pilot basis and accordingly identified two areas ...
Death due to heart attack at job place is employment injury: HCDeath due to heart failure at work place amounts to employment injury, the Bombay High Court has held.
- Extend ESI scheme to glass, bangle workers: Parliamentary panel
A Parliamentary panel has suggested extending the Employees State Insurance (ESI) scheme to glass and bangle workers in the unorganised sec...
- Unorganised sector workers to get ESIC medicare facilities
Millions of workers in the unorganised sector would be able to take advantage of the ESIC medicare facilities with the government on Friday...
- Amnesty scheme to settle ESI cases in Bengal circle
The West Bengal circle of the Employee’s State Insurance Corporation (ESI) hopes to settle as much as 60% of cases pending in different cou...
- Employees’ insurance firm to run ESI plan without states
: The World’s largest health insurance scheme, the Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC), will soon start running the ESI scheme by ...
- Govt examining recommendation for raising wage ceiling for ESI
Government is examining a recommendation for raising of monthly wage ceiling for Employees State Insurance coverage from Rs.6,500 at presen...