What is the detail

This move by EPFO is aimed at making UAN more authentic and error-free. Universal Account Number (UNM) is an important 12-digit unique identification code given to every employee nominated under the EPF scheme. Without it, EPF contributors may face problems like accessing their PF balance and submitting claims for advance withdrawal.

What are the rules

As per the new rules, new employees will have to complete the process of generating UAN through Aadhaar-based face authentication only. The existing employer-based UAN process will continue as normal except for exceptional cases like international employees and citizens of Nepal and Bhutan. This means that generating UAN through employers will still be allowed in some cases, but the use of Aadhaar-based FAT is now mandatory for most employees. New employees should also note that this process has to be completed through the Umang app.

Who will be affected

The new facial recognition mandate could create problems for staffing firms that provide manpower solutions to multinational companies. In a recent submission to the EPFO, the Indian Staffing Federation (ISF) has highlighted that the revised policy could create problems for employees, as many of them do not have their mobile numbers linked to their Aadhaar.

The Indian Staffing Federation (ISF), which represents over 135 contractual staffing firms employing over 18 lakh workers, has highlighted the challenges posed by these new rules. The federation also said that problems could arise due to users’ unfamiliarity with the new system and possible discrepancies in phone models and camera settings during authentication.

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In India, gratuity is regulated under the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972, under which employees get a lump sum amount after leaving the job or retiring.

When does one become entitled to gratuity?

To get gratuity, an employee must work continuously for at least 5 years in the same company. However, if an employee dies or suffers from a serious physical disability, this rule does not apply and gratuity benefits are available even without completing 5 years. Who gets its benefit? This benefit is available to those employees who work in a factory, mine, plantation, shop or any such institution where at least 10 people work.

Gratuity is available in situations like retirement, resignation, dismissal from job or death/disability of the employee. How is gratuity calculated? Gratuity is calculated on the basis of the employee’s last salary and years of work. There are two ways for this – one for those employees who come under the Gratuity Act and the other for those employees who are not covered under this Act.

If the employee comes under this Act, then his gratuity is calculated using this formula:

Gratuity = (Last Drawn Salary × 15 × Number of Years of Service) / 26

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Although there are many rules related to employees, but all the rules do not apply to every employee. But there are 8 basic rights that every employee has. Today we will learn about 8 such basic legal rights. Rights against
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The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention) Act, 2013 makes it mandatory for all employers to protect female employees from any form of sexual harassment at the workplace. It is mandatory for all offices, hospitals, institutions and other establishments to constitute an internal complaints committee. If a woman employee makes a complaint related to sexual harassment at the workplace, then this committee investigates it.

Right to Insurance

Every employee has the right to be insured by the employer under the Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948. In the event of any kind of injury or miscarriage during employment, the benefit of insurance will be given.

Maternity benefit

Every female employee is entitled to 26 weeks of maternity leave. Salary will not be deducted for this leave. The objective of the Maternity Benefit Act is to protect the interests of pregnant women employees at the workplace. Every employee has the right

to leave , privileged leave, casual leave, sick leave, maternity leave to women employees.
His salary will not be deducted for these holidays.

Right to go on strike

Employees have the right to go on strike without giving any notice. If the employee is a public utility employee, then he has to follow the restrictions mentioned in the Industrial Disputes Act 1947. As per section 22(1) of this act, a public utility employee is required to give six weeks notice before going on such strike.

Fixed working hours

Under the Shops and Establishment Act, work can be done for a maximum of 9 hours a day and 48 hours in a week. There is no discrimination between managerial and non-managerial employees under this law. The working hours may be increased to 54 hours in a week by giving prior notice to the Inspector but the overtime shall not exceed 150 hours in a year.

Right to Equal Pay for Equal Work

Equal pay for equal work is a constitutional right. No employer can discriminate on the basis of sex, caste or age. Employees performing the same job, same responsibility also have the right to get equal pay.

Provident fund

It is a retirement benefit scheme available to all salaried employees. Under the law, both the employer and the employee have to contribute 12% of the basic salary as PF. The employer has to maintain the Employee Provident Fund (EPF).

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According to the Income Tax Department, the last date for filing ITR for FY 2022-23 and Assessment Year 2023-24 is 31 July 2023. The department has issued an online form for filing ITR. In such a situation, do not delay ITR filing thinking that there is time till 31st July.

It is important to do this…

Even if you do not come under the tax net, you should still file ITR. Meanwhile, Form-16 is being made available to the salaried class for ITR filing by the institute. In this case, before filing ITR, match the data given in Form-16 and Annual Information Statement (AIS). So that it can be ascertained that the data being given to the Income Tax Department is absolutely accurate.

Form-16 mentions the details of income as well as deductions for which taxpayers can claim. The employee has to check the details mentioned in Form-16. He has to see whether it matches the amount earned or not. There should be no difference between the details given in the tax return and AIS, otherwise the taxpayer may get a notice.

Let us tell you, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while presenting the budget for the year 2023, gave relief to the tax payers under the new tax regime. However, no change was made in the old tax regime on the part of the government.

Now let us tell you how you can file ITR sitting at home:

• Go to the e-filing portal (https://eportal.incometax.gov.in/) of the Income Tax Department.
• After this, log-in with the help of your user ID and password on the homepage. 
• On the dashboard, click on e-File > Income Tax Return > ‘File Income Tax Return’.
• Then select the assessment year, such as 2023-24, and click on ‘Continue’.
• Now choose the method of ITR filing and select the online option.
• Now choose your ITR form according to your tax income and TDS calculation. 
• After selecting the applicable ITR for you, keeping all the necessary documents close, click on the start option.
• Now some questions will appear on the screen, whatever is applicable to you, mark its check box and click on continue.
• As per the documents, enter the details of your income and deductions in different sections.
• If there is a case of tax liability, a brief description of the tax-calculation based on the details provided by you will appear. 
• Taxability is created according to the calculation, then you can choose the option of ‘pay now’ and ‘pay later’.
• If no tax liability is created, then after paying the tax, one has to click on ‘Preview Return’. 
• Then click on ‘Preview and submit return’ declaration checkbox and select ‘Proceed for validation’ option.
• View the preview and on the ‘Submit Return’ page, proceed to verify. It is mandatory to verify and e-verify the return.
• On the e-verify page, select the option using which you want to do e-verification and click on ‘Continue’.
• Once you have e-verified the return, a successful submission of the form is displayed on the screen.
• Transaction ID and Acknowledgment Number are available on the screen, so that you can check the status of your ITR form in future.
• Your mobile number and email ID which is registered on the e-filing portal, you will get the message of successfully filling the form. 

While filing ITR (ITR), keep in mind that this time the new tax regime has been kept in default. If you want to file ITR under the old tax regime, then you will have to convert it yourself. There are very limited options to avail tax exemption in the new tax regime. However, income up to Rs 7 lakh has been effectively made tax free. At the same time, the tax exemption limit has not been increased in the old tax regime. But there you can claim tax exemption by investing in various government schemes and in other ways.

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Online application date extended till June 17

In view of the technical problem being faced in the ongoing transfer process in Basic Schools of Uttar Pradesh, the date of online application has been extended till June 17. Now candidates will be able to apply online till Saturday. At the same time, an opportunity has also been given to rectify the deficiencies in the data and application. BSA has been authorized for this.

Responsibility to BSA

In fact, the process of online application for mutual transfer within the district and transfer from one district to another in the department has started from June 9. Online application was to be done till June 14 but it has been extended in view of technical difficulties. A complaint was made by the teachers regarding the application. It was said that the application is getting error and has faced a lot of technical difficulties.

BSA will be able to modify the data

In the instructions issued by the department, it was said that NIC has encountered a problem in the data uploaded from the Manav Sampada portal. For whose improvement BSA has been appointed once again. Teachers will apply online or in person to BSA to fix designation, cadre and gender including teacher teacher cadre rural city area. BSA will be able to modify this data.

In such a situation, according to the new process, the teachers who are seeing error in the printout after their application. Such teachers will report online or to BSA and BS will modify it and rectify the error in the application. Pratap Singh Baghel, Secretary, Basic Education Council, says that the date has been extended till June 17 for the solution and application of all the problems. After completing the process by June 17, the transfer of employees will be done till June 30.

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India’s largest IT company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has issued a strict order regarding the return to its office policy. The company has started sending memos to those employees who are not completing at least 12 days work from office in a month.

The memos warned the employees that disciplinary action would be initiated if they did not follow the roster. This memo states that you are hereby warned and directed to start reporting to work from your office location with immediate effect.

During the Corona period, companies had given the facility of work from home. Companies have reopened their offices when the cases of Corona decrease. But many employees are not coming to office. Instead of working from home. There is a tussle between the management and the employees in many companies regarding this.

What is the company’s

Policy When asked about the company’s policy, the company said that many people have joined the company in the last two years, and it is important for the employees to know the place better so that the results are good. TCS believes that working from office helps in fulfilling the purpose and the company expects people to work from office for a few days. So, it is making sure that the employees follow the rules. In October, the company had told its employees that the manager would roster them (call to office) three days a week, which they have to follow.

If the employee does not come, the salary will be deducted and leave

TCS told the employees that work from home will not be promoted except for medical emergency. TCS was one of the first IT services companies to call its employees back to office. It is also the only company so far to strictly implement it. The company also informed that the salary or leave of the employees who do not follow the roster will be deducted.

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The budget day is slowly coming closer. Along with this, activities related to Income Tax have also started. Investment proof is being sought from those working in offices. It will be decided on the basis of investment proof whether your salary will come in full or less in the next month. If you have not submitted the proof of tax saving, then the salary will be sent to your account after deducting income tax. For investment proof, you have to submit proof of where you have invested. First the employee has to inform his office where he is investing. After this, its proof is sought in January.

Under Section 80C of Income Tax, tax exemption can be taken on investment up to Rs 1,50,000. That is, under this section 80C, you can reduce your total taxable income by Rs 1,50,000 by making different investments. Proof of investment: Life Insurance Policy premium receipt, ULIP premium proof, Equity Linked Savings Scheme (ELSS) investment proof, PPF, Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana and NSC investment receipts made on home loan principal Can collect rebate on repair and health insurance premium.

Tax exemption limit

In the year 2014, the then Finance Minister Arun Jaitley increased the tax exemption limit from Rs 2 lakh to Rs 2.5 lakh and also increased the tax exemption limit under Section 80C from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 1.5 lakh. Tax exemption is given on different types of investments under Section 80C of the Income Tax Act. If you have forgotten to claim tax exemption on different types of investments in any year, then later you can claim tax exemption by filing income tax return.

To save tax, under Section 80C, you can invest in Mutual Fund Tax Funds (ELSS), Bank’s Tax Savings Fixed Deposit Scheme, NPS, PPF, Life Insurance Policy, National Savings Certificate and Post Office Senior Citizen Savings Scheme. Tax exemption is also available on the tuition fees of two children. For this, you have to give the fee certificate issued by the school. This is the only expense under section 80C that does not come under the purview of investment.

How to get benefit

If you want to avail tax exemption under section 80C, you have to invest before the end of the financial year. In the year in which you invest in this period, you will be able to get the benefit of tax exemption for the same year. It is up to you to decide how much to invest in which instrument. The total limit with you is Rs 1.5 lakh. Now whether you want to invest the entire money in a single instrument or invest some money in various mediums.

The amount you claim under this section is reduced from your gross total income. It is easy to calculate this income tax. Suppose your gross total income is Rs 10 lakh and you have claimed a deduction of Rs 1.5 lakh under section 80C. So your taxable income will be Rs 8.5 lakh.

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This pay commission gives recommendations to make the salary of the employees in line with the current environment. On the basis of this, first the central and then the state governments restructure their salaries. This benefits all government employees.

So far 7 pay commissions have been constituted

So far 7 pay commissions have been constituted in the country. The first pay commission in the country was formed in January 1946. At the same time, the last i.e. Seventh Pay Commission was constituted on February 28, 2014. In such a situation, it has been 8 years since the 7th Pay Commission, so the atmosphere of discussion about the 8th Pay Commission has become heated in the employees’ organizations. If this happens, then 68 lakh central government employees and 52 lakh pensioners will get its direct benefit.

The government has refused for the time being

When the Central Pay Commission will be constituted, questions are being asked from the employees’ unions to the government. However, during the monsoon session, the government has made it clear that at present, it does not have any proposal under consideration to make the eighth pay commission. Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Choudhary said in Parliament on Monday that at present there is no idea on the 8th Pay Commission.

How much can the salary increase

The government may have refused the Pay Commission for the time being, but there is a flurry among the employees’ unions about it. Organizations say that at present the minimum wage limit has been kept at Rs 18,000. In this, the fitment factor in increment is 2.57 times, although the 7th Pay Commission recommends keeping it to 3.68 times. If the recommendation is accepted, then the minimum salary of central employees will increase from Rs 18 thousand to Rs 26 thousand.

Will Pay Commission be abolished?

It is also being heard that after the 7th Pay Commission, its tradition will end. That is, after this 8th or any other new pay commission will not come. Instead, the government can implement an automatic increment system. In this, the salary increase of government employees will be done automatically. It can be like increment in private jobs. In this, if the DA is more than 50 percent, there will be automatic revision in the salary.

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Even though companies across the world are coming up with people friendly policies, there is always a small section of employees who like to take   advantage of the same. Often employees leave organizations without serving notice in the lure of better chances elsewhere. But this is only a short term advantage. Barring some countries, most good organizations require a ”service or relieving certificate” as proof of employment.

The signed and   stamped ” Letter of Appointment” between and employer and employee is a legally valid document in the court of law. If an appointment letter clearly spells out the conditions of termination and notice, and the employee signs the document, then he/she must abide by the terms. However, most organization have a condition of ”lieu of”. Typically the notice period can be waived ”in lieu of” pay deduction. And most employees exercise that option by negotiating the difference with the other organization. There are always exceptions but no ethical   organization can force an employee to serve the notice unless there is a pressing business need or ”notice pay” refusal from employee or monetary advances provided to the employee.

The Specific Relief Act says that a Contract of Personal Service cannot be enforced in a Court of Law which means that if an employee quits before the Notice period the Employer can only recover the Notice pay. No Employer can force an Employee to complete the Notice period, it is for the employee to complete the Notice period in order to take his full salary and the relieving letter.

You can leave the job by either giving notice or payment in lieu of notice.The Company’s policies and procedures are the supplementary aspects. The constitution of India provides the fundamental right to every person to choose the profession of his choice and any agreement contrary to this is invalid. By putting the clause in service regulation that it is company’s discretion to accept the notice or not is against the provisions of constitution of India. Hence company cannot threaten you by showing this clause. The Company cannot force you to serve the entire notice period.

Also Read:

• How to file Income Tax Returns ( ITR )?

• EPF v/s PPF v/s VPF: Which One is Better?

• HRA Exemption Rules

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