Formal job creation under ESIC up 13% in July at 2.25 million: Payroll dataAs per the provisional payroll data, released by the ministry of labour and employment on Friday, around 56,467 new establishments have bee...
13 Sep, 2024, 07.56 PM IST
ESIC adds 1.94 million formal workers in AugustFormal job creation by the Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) slightly decreased in August, with 1.94 million jobs added compare...
13 Oct, 2023, 08.46 PM IST
ESIC adds 16.03 lakh new subscribers in FebruaryAccording to the data released by the ministry of labour and employment on Tuesday, around 11,000 new establishments have been registered i...
18 Apr, 2023, 02.02 PM IST
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...
20 Jan, 2023, 09.36 PM IST
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...
31 Aug, 2022, 03.38 PM IST
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...
10 Jun, 2021, 04.54 PM IST
Employees’ State Insurance Corporation kick-starts work on social security scheme for organised workersThe organisation, under the labour ministry, has written to states to speed up creation of requisite medical infrastructure in 161 district...
31 Oct, 2020, 11.11 AM IST
EPFO recovers Rs 459 crore PF dues out of Rs 1,251 crore outstanding in 2018-19The total backlog or outstanding provident fund dues of EPFO during 2018-19 was Rs 791.63 crore, Labour Minister Santosh Gangwar said in a ...
17 Jul, 2019, 04.20 PM IST
Government reduces ESI contribution rate to 4 per centThe government has reduced contributions of employers and employee towards ESIC to 4% from existing 6.5%.
14 Jun, 2019, 09.32 AM IST
Contribution to Employees’ State Insurance scheme rate reduced: Employees, employers to benefitThe employer’s contribution has been reduced from 4.75 percent to 4 percent of wages, and employee contribution from 1.75 percent to 1 perc...
27 Feb, 2019, 12.36 PM IST
Government plans to pay companies’ share of ESI for new recruitsESIC provides for medical care and cash benefits in the contingencies of sickness, maternity, disablement and death due to employment injur...
12 Jun, 2018, 09.23 AM IST
Labour ministry cuts down number of registers from 56 to just five; offers free downloads for easy digitisationThe laws include, Building and Other Construction workers Act 1996, Minimum wages act 1948 and The Working Journalists and other Newspapers...
24 Feb, 2017, 09.46 PM IST
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...
23 Nov, 2016, 05.33 PM IST
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...
18 Dec, 2015, 03.11 PM IST
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...
13 Aug, 2015, 02.17 PM IST
1,260 private security companies violated PF rules in 2014-15: Bandaru DattatreyaIn the previous fiscal (2013-14), 869 such firms were found to have violated the Employees Provident Funds & Miscellaneous Provision Act, 1...
27 Apr, 2015, 05.52 PM IST
- 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...
19 Mar, 2010, 06.21 PM IST