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Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation has begun Employees’ Enrolment Campaign - 2025 with an purpose of allowing employers to voluntarily state and enrol eligible employees, who were near retired from EPF coverage, betwixt July 1, 2017 and October 31, 2025.
The peculiar compliance model would stay unfastened betwixt November 1, 2025 till April 30, 2026, said Commissioner of EPFO, Madurai Regional Office, S. Azhahiya Manavalan.
Talking to reporters present connected Tuesday, Mr. Manavalan said that the peculiar compliance model would assistance the employers regularise past defaults with minimal penal consequences.
“Employers would look 100% punishment of the full outstanding publication successful mean process for not including eligible worker nether EPF sum for a minimum of six months. However, nether the peculiar campaign, the leader request to wage lone ₹100 penalty,” helium said.
The employers person to marque an online submission of details of each the left-out employees betwixt July 1, 2017 and October 31, 2025 successful a azygous declaration form.
Subsequently, the employers request to make cosmopolitan relationship fig for each of the declared worker and marque the contribution, on with interest, meant for each of them.
However, the employees’ stock of publication request not beryllium paid for the declared period, helium added.
Stating that during a akin peculiar campaign, Madurai Regional Office had added 24,000 employees successful 2017, Mr. Manavalan said that leaving retired this meagre fig of employees retired of 5 lakh rank successful Madurai Regional Office did not bespeak immoderate nonaccomplishment of enforcement by the EPFO, helium clarified.
“The nonsubjective of the run is to guarantee that the employees bash not miss retired their eligibility to get pensionary benefits nether EPF by not gathering the minimum 10 years of rank to get the societal information benefit,” helium added.
Madurai Regional Office has enrolled nether EPF strategy 5 lakh employees of 9,000 institutions from Madurai, Virudhunagar, Theni, Dindigul, Sivaganga and Ramanathapuram districts.
