Landscaping Agreement

Dear Friend,Your question is if a company is covered under the ESI Act, in that case, whether ESI is applicable to its contractors' employees having less than 20 employees.As far as the legal position is concerned, my respected senior colleagues have already exp...

Dear Sir(s),I would like to point out to Sh. Mahabir Dhaiyaji that the provisions of Section 1(5) of the ESI Act, 1948 were not amended to align it with the provisions of Section 1(3). Implementing the ESI Scheme in selected establishments falls well within the ...

Dear Sir,If a company is covered under PF/ESI, etc., contractors' laborers are also coverable under PF/ESI, etc. Even if a contractor has only one employee, they are to be covered.

Dear MK Kilaru ji,You may give any nomenclature to a contract. That is not important. What is important is the nature of work, whether the work is of perennial nature or not, the daily hours of work, supervision, and control, etc. If we adopt the practice of con...

Thanks to all. If we provide consultancy rather than maintenance or deploying manpower for gardening in your work order, will statutory obligations still be applicable?Regards,MK Kilaru

Dear Folks,If the company is covered under the ESI Act, is ESI applicable to its contractors who have fewer than 20 employees? Can you clarify?MK Kilaru

Dear all,The ESI Act has been amended, and the ESI Scheme is now uniformly applicable to a factory or establishment that employs/has employed 10 or more persons on any day in the last 12 months.

Dear Harsha,Even though the contractor has fewer than 20 employees, they are eligible for an ESI code because the rule now states that 10 employees are sufficient.V. Subbarao

Dear Friends,Additions with still in simple words: A company covered under ESI Act is liable to cover all the coverable employees working under it, including contractors' employees. The company should ensure that no coverable employee, including contractors, sho...