Hi,
I understand that for registration of ESI or EPF, the company should have a minimum of 20 employees. My company employs only 12 people. But I volunteer to extend the benfits to our employees though the number of employees are less than the minimum requirement to register under ESI or EPF. My query is, whether I can apply for registration of ESI and EPF even when my employee strength is less than the minimum requirement?
Can anyone clarify?

From United States, Newport Beach
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Hi, You can go for Provident Fund Registration under Voluntary , but you will not get ESI Registration unless your company have 20 employees whose salary is less than 10000/-
From India, New+Delhi
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Hi,

I have one query. I am working in a company as Asst HR & Admin, which is registered under the shop act and has a workforce of 10 employees. Can you please help me understand if ESI and PF are applicable to our company?

Thank you.

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jkct15
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We have done this for one of our suppliers. They had only 8 people on payroll, and we insisted that they register for PF & ESI. Since they didn't have enough numbers, we suggested including an excess number of employees to reach the count required by PF & ESI, and they got registered. In the consecutive month, they showed the rest of the people we added as having left, and now with 8 members, they are continuing. So, if you think you have to cover your employees under PF & ESI, for one month, you have to bear a few hundreds, and from then on, you could cover them in actual.

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Dear SN Krishnamoorthy,

Have a nice day.

You are applying for ESI Registration under the said Act (as per the latest amendment of the ESI Act). The minimum requirement is 10 or more employees for any establishment. For P.F., you are not eligible for registration under the EPF and MP Act, 1952. However, your application falls under section 1(4) (voluntary).

Go ahead.

With warm regards,

From India, Vadodara
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Is it compulsory for an organisation to get itself registered if the employees are more than 20
From India, Hyderabad
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Companies having 10 employees is mandatory to cover ESIC, if not done now ESI people will start coverage from when you reached 10 employees.
From India, Bengaluru
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