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ESI PPF EMPLOYEE MEANS

Robin verma (CA FINAL) (97 Points)

30 July 2016

Dear Sir
Plz clarify about "employee" for the purpose of ESI and PPF act.
whether peon- driver-accountant also included for calculating no of employee.
Client is construction contractor.
plz explain
thanks

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Robin verma (CA FINAL) (97 Points)
Replied 30 July 2016

If contractor is hiring labour on contract basis ..then too they will b included in no of employee

mohammad rasool baig (Management Consultant) (1026 Points)
Replied 30 July 2016

(e) “employer” means-

(i) in relation to an establishment which is a factory, the owner or occupier of the factory, including the agent of such owner or occupier, the legal representative of a deceased owner or occupier and, where a person has been named as a manager of the factory under

(ii) in relation to any other establishment, the person who, or the authority which, has the ultimate control over the affairs of the establishment, and where the said affairs are entrusted to a manager, managing director or managing agent, such manager, managing director or managing agent;

f) “employee” means any person who is employed for wages in any kind of work, manual or otherwise, in or in connection with the work of an establishment and who gets his wages directly or indirectly from the employer, and includes any person,-

(i) employed by or through a contractor in or in connection with the work of the establishment;

(ii) engaged as an apprentice, not being an apprentice engaged under the Apprentices Act, 1961 (52 of 1961) or under the standing orders of the establishment;

(ff) “exempted employee” means an employee to whom a Scheme or the Insurance Scheme, as the case may be, would, but for the exemption granted under section 17, have applied;