ESIC Alert: Amazing news for Employers; ESIC extends date for filing this return

ESIC Alert: Amazing news for Employers! The Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) has allowed all employers to file the return of contribution up to 11 June 2020 for the contribution period from October, 2019 to March, 2020, the organization said in a tweet. The order was issued by the Director General of ESIC on Monday.

“In continuation of this office letter of even number dated 17.03.2020 on the subject noted above, it is informed that the Director General in exercise of his powers vested under regulation  100, has further relaxed the provisions as entered in regulation 26 of the Employees’ State Insurance (General) Regulations, 1950,” the tweet said.

“Accordingly,  the employers are allowed to file the Return of Contribution up to 11.06.2020 for the contribution period from October, 2019 to March 2020,” the tweet further said.

ESIC has been taking several steps to extend help to the employers and employees alike amid the nationwide lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The department which works under the Ministry of Labour & Employment, recently accorded his approved for payment of salary/wages to contractual manpower such as housekeeping, maintenance etc, according to a circular issued by the organisation. The approval has been granted for payment of salary for those employees who have not been able to attend the ESIC offices since the imposition of the lockdown.

The move had come in the wake of a direction issued by the Department of Expenditure under the Ministry of Finance, which said that all contractual employees shall be treated as “on duty” during their period of absence on account of the lockdown measures in place. The contractual employees would be given their wages/pay accordingly, it further said.

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For those hospitals which have been working despite lockdown measures in place, the salary will be considered on the basis of their attendance marked at the hospitals, the circular said. ESIC hospitals have been functioning even during the lockdown as they fall under the ambit of essential services.