dear neha, you can also deposit your pf form after sign by gazzted officer (court ) in pf office. if employer not sign it. regards nimesh
From India, Gurgaon
1From India, Gurgaon
Hi Neha,
Please visit any near by PF Office and get some details. If you have the PF Account number you can take the signature of a Gazzetted Officer and file the same to the PF Office for withdrawing your amount.
From India, Srikakulam
Please visit any near by PF Office and get some details. If you have the PF Account number you can take the signature of a Gazzetted Officer and file the same to the PF Office for withdrawing your amount.
From India, Srikakulam
Dear Shilpi,
I have tried to give all possible penalties, which can an employer faced due to not depositing the Provident Fund amount, under the Provision of PF Act. Which in nut shell says that the Principal Employer will be arrested and sentenced to the imprisonment.
Although the following may be long but I am sure you will get your answer in that.....
The following extract, section wise is from the Provident Fund Act.
7C. Determination of escaped amount. - Where an order determining the amount due from an employer under section 7A or section 7B has been passed and if the officer who passed the orders –
(a) has reason to believe that by reason of the omission or failure on the part of the employer to make any document or report available, or to disclose, fully and truly, all material facts necessary for determining the correct amount due from the employer, any amount so due from such employer for any period has escaped his notice;
(b) has, in consequence of information in his possession, reason to believe that any amount to be determined under section 7A or section 7B has escaped from his determination for any period notwithstanding that there has been no omission or failure as mentioned in clause a on the part of the employer,
he may, within a period of five years from the date of communication of the order passed under section 7A or section 7B, re-open the case and pass appropriate orders re-determining the amount due from the employer in accordance with the provisions of this Act:
Provided that no order re-determining the amount due from the employer shall be passed under this section unless the employer is given a reasonable opportunity of representing his case.
8. Mode of recovery of moneys due from employers– any amount due -
(a) from the employer in relation to an establishment to which any Scheme or the Insurance Scheme applies in respect of any contribution payable to the Fund or, as the case may be, the Insurance Fund, damages recoverable under section 14B, accumulations required to be transferred under sub-section 2 of section 15 or under sub-section 5 of section 17 or any charges payable by him under any other provision of this Act or of any provision of the Scheme or the Insurance Scheme; or
(b) from the employer in relation to an exempted establishment in respect of any damages recoverable under section 14B or any charges payable by him the appropriate Government under any provision of this Act or under any of the conditions specified under section 17 or in respect of the contribution payable by him towards the Pension Scheme under the said section 17,
may, if the amount is in arrear, be recovered in the manner specified in section 8B to 8G.
8A. Recovery of moneys by employers and contractors.
(1) The amount of contribution that is to say, the employer’s contribution as well as the employee’s contribution in pursuance of any Scheme and the employer’s contribution in pursuance of the Insurance Scheme and any charges for meeting the cost of administering the Fund paid or payable by an employer in respect of an employee employed by or through a contractor may be recovered by such employer from the contractor, either by deduction from any amount payable to the contractor under any contract or as a debt payable by the contractor.
(2) A contractor from whom the amounts mentioned in sub-section 1 may be recovered in respect of any employee employed by or through him, may recover from such employee the employee’s contribution under any Scheme by deduction from the basic wages, dearness allowance and retaining allowance if any payable to such employee.
(3) Notwithstanding any contract to the contrary, no contractor shall be entitled to deduct the employer’s contribution or the charges referred to in sub-section 1 from the basic wages, dearness allowance, and retaining allowance if any payable to an employee employed by or through him or otherwise to recover such contribution or charges from such employee.
Explanation. – In this section, the expressions “dearness allowance” and “retaining allowance” shall have the same meanings as in section 6.
8B. Issue of certificate to the Recovery Officer.
(1) Where any amount is in arrear under section8, the authorised officer may issue, to the Recovery Officer, a certificate under his signature specifying the amount of arrears and the Recovery Officer, on receipt of such certificate, shall proceed to recover the amount specified therein from the establishment or, as the case may be, the employer by one or more of the modes mentioned below:-
(a) attachment and sale of the movable or immovable property of the establishment or, as the case may be, the employer;
(b) arrest of the employer and his detention in prison;
(c) appointing a receiver for the management of the movable or immovable properties of the establishment or, as the case may be, the employer:
Provided that the attachment and sale of any property under this section shall first be effected against the properties of the establishment and where such attachment and sale is insufficient for recovery the whole of the amount of arrears specified in the certificate, the Recovery Officer may take such proceedings against the property of the employer for recovery of the whole or any part of such arrears.
(2) The authorised officer may issue a certificate under sub-section 1, notwithstanding that proceedings for recovery of the arrears by any other mode have been taken.
8C. Recovery officer to whom certificate is to be forwarded.
(1) The authorised officer may forward the certificate referred to in section 8B to the Recovery Officer within whose jurisdiction the employer –
(a) carries on his business or profession or within whose jurisdiction the principal place of his establishment is situated; or
(b) resides or any movable or immovable property of the establishment or the employer is situated.
(2) Where an establishment or the employer has property within the jurisdiction of more than one Recovery Officers and the Recovery Officer to whom a certificate is sent by the authorised officer -
(a) is not able to recover the entire amount by the sale of the property movable or immovable, within his jurisdiction; or
(b) is of the opinion that, for the purpose of expediting or securing the recovery of the whole or any part of the amount, it is necessary so to do,
he may send the certificate or, where only a part of the amount is to be recovered, a copy of the certificate certified in the prescribed manner and specifying the amount to be recovered to the Recovery Officer within whose jurisdiction the establishment or the employer has property or the employer resides, and thereupon that Recovery Officer shall also proceed to recover the amount due under this section as if the certificate or the copy thereof had been the certificate sent to him by the authorised officer.
8F. Other modes of recovery.
(1) Notwithstanding the issue of a certificate to the Recovery Officer under section 8B, the Central Provident Fund Commissioner or any other officer authorised by the Central Board may recover the amount by any one or more of the modes provided in this section.
(2) If any amount is due from any person to any employer who is in arrears, the Central Provident Fund Commissioner or any other officer authorised by the Central Board in this behalf may require such person to deduct from the said amount the arrears due from such employer under this Act, and such person shall comply with any such requisition and shall pay the sum so deducted to the credit of the Central Provident Fund Commissioner or the officer so authorised, as the case may be:
Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall apply to any part of the amount exempt from attachment in execution of a decree of a civil court under section 60 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908).
(3) (i) The Central Provident Fund Commissioner or any other officer authorised by the Central Board in this behalf may, at any time or from time to time, by notice in writing, require any person from whom money is due or may become due to the employer or, as the case may be, the establishment or any person who holds or may subsequently hold money for or on account of the employer or as the case may be, the establishment, to pay to the Central Provident Fund Commissioner either forthwith upon the money becoming due or being held or at or within the time specified in the notice not being before the money becomes due or is held so much of the money as is sufficient to pay the amount due from the employer in respect of arrears or the whole of the money when it is equal to or less than that amount.
(ii) A notice under this sub-section may be issued to any person who holds or may subsequently hold any money for or on account of the employer jointly with any other person and for the purposes of this sub-section, the shares of the joint holders in such account shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, to be equal.
(iii) A copy of the notice shall be forwarded to the employer at his last address known to the Central Provident Fund Commissioner or as the case may be, the officer so authorised and in the case of a joint account to all the joint holders at their last addresses known to the Central Provident Fund Commissioner or the officer so authorised.
(iv) Save as otherwise provided in this sub-section, every person to whom a notice is issued under this sub-section shall be bound to comply with such notice, and, in particular, where any such notice is issued to a post office, bank or an insurer, it shall not be necessary for any pass book, deposit receipt, policy or any other document to be produced for the purpose of any entry, endorsement or the like being made before payment is made notwithstanding any rule, practice or requirement to the contrary.
(v) Any claim respecting any property in relation to which a notice under this sub-section has been issued arising after the date of the notice shall be void as against any demand contained in the notice.
(vi) Where a person to whom a notice under this sub-section is sent objects to it by a statement on oath that the sum demanded or any part thereof is not due to the employer or that he does not hold any money for or on account of the employer, then nothing contained in this sub-section shall be deemed to require such person to pay any such sum or part thereof, as the case may be, but if it is discovered that such statement was false in any material particular, such person shall be personally liable to the Central Provident Fund Commissioner or the officer so authorised to extent of his own liability to the employer on the date of the notice, or to the extent of the employer’s liability for any sum due under this Act, whichever is less.
(vii) The Central Provident Fund Commissioner or the officer so authorised may, at any time or from time to time, amend or revoke any notice issued under this sub-section or extend the time for making any payment in pursuance of such notice.
(viii) The Central Provident Fund Commissioner or the officer so authorised shall grant a receipt for any amount paid in compliance with a notice issued under this sub-section, and the person so paying shall be fully discharged from his liability to the employer to the extent of the amount so paid.
(ix) Any person discharging any liability to the employer after the receipt of a notice under this sub-section shall be personally liable to the Central Provident Fund Commissioner or the officer so authorised to the extent of his own liability to the employer so discharged or to the extent of the employer’s liability for any sum due under this Act, whichever is less.
(x) If the person to whom a notice under this sub-section is sent fails to make payment in pursuance thereof to the Central Provident Fund Commissioner or the officer so authorised he shall be deemed to be an employer in default in respect of the amount specified in the notice and further proceedings may be taken against him for the realisation of the amount as if it were an arrear due from him, in the manner provided in sections 8B to 8E and the notice shall have the same effect as an attachment of a debt by the Recovery Officer in exercise of his powers under section 8B.
(4) The Central Provident Fund Commissioner or the officer authorised by the Central Board in this behalf may apply to the court in whose custody there is money belonging to the employer for payment to him of the entire amount of such money, or if it is more than the amount due, an amount sufficient to discharge the amount due.
(5) The Central Provident Fund Commissioner or any officer not below the rank of Assistant Provident Fund Commissioner may, if so authorised by the Central Government by general or special order, recover any arrears of amount due from an employer or, as the case may be, from the establishment by distraint and sale of his or its movable property in the manner laid down in the Third Schedule to the Income-Tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961).
14. Penalties.
(1) Whoever, for the purpose of avoiding any payment to be made by himself under this Act, the Scheme, the Pension Scheme or the Insurance Scheme or of enabling any other person to avoid such payment, knowingly makes or causes to be made any false statement or false representation shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine of five thousand rupees, or with both.
(1A) An employer who contravenes, or makes default in complying with, the provisions of section 6 or clause a of sub-section 3 of section 17 in so far as it relates to the payment of inspection charges, or paragraph 38 of the Scheme in so far as it relates to the payment of administrative charges, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years but –
(a) which shall not be less than one year and a fine of ten thousand rupees in case of default in payment of the employees’ contribution which has been deducted by the employer from the employees’ wages;
(b) which shall not be less than six months and a fine of five thousand rupees, in any other case:
Provided that the Court may, for any adequate and special reasons to be recorded in the judgment, impose a sentence of imprisonment for a lesser term.
(1B) An employer who contravenes, or makes default in complying with, the provisions of section 6C, or clause a of sub-section 3A of section 17 in so far as it relates to the payment of inspection charges, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year but which shall not be less than six months and shall also be liable to fine which may extend to five thousand rupees:
Provided that the Court may, for any adequate and special reasons to be recorded in the judgment, impose a sentence of imprisonment for a lesser term.
(2) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Scheme, the Pension Scheme or the Insurance Scheme may provide that any person who contravenes, or makes default in complying with, any of the provisions thereof shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine which may extend to four thousand rupees, or with both.
(2A) Whoever contravenes or makes default in complying with any provision of this Act or of any condition subject to which exemption was granted under section 17 shall, if no other penalty is elsewhere provided by or under this Act for such contravention or non-compliance, be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to six months, but which shall not be less than one month, and shall also be liable to fine which may extend to five thousand rupees.
14B. Power to recover damages - Where an employer makes default in the payment of any contribution to the Fund the Pension Fund or the Insurance Fund or in the transfer of accumulations required to be transferred by him under sub-section 2 of section 15 or sub-section 5 of section 17 or in the payment of any charges payable under any other provision of this Act or of any Scheme or Insurance Scheme or under any of the conditions specified under section 17, the Central Provident Fund Commissioner or such other officer as may be authorised by the Central Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, in this behalf may recover from the employer by way of penalty such damages, not exceeding the amount of arrears, as may be specified in the Scheme.
Provided that before levying and recovering such damages, the employer shall be given a reasonable opportunity of being heard.
Provided further that the Central Board may reduce or waive the damages levied under this section in relation to an establishment which is a sick industrial company and in respect of which a scheme for rehabilitation has been sanctioned by the Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction established under section 4 of the Sick Industrial Companies (Special Provisions) Act, 1985 (1 of 1986), subject to such terms and conditions as may be specified in the Scheme.
14C. Power of court to make orders - (1) Where an employer is convicted of an offence of making default in the payment of any contribution to the Fund, the Pension Fund or the Insurance Fund or in the transfer of accumulations required to be transferred by him under sub-section (2) of section 15 or sub-section (5) of section 17, the court may, in addition to awarding any punishment, by order in writing require him within a period specified in the order which the court may, if it thinks fit and on application in that behalf from time to time, extend, to pay the amount of contribution or transfer the accumulations, as the case may be, in respect of which the offence was committed.
(2) Where an order is made under sub-section (1), the employer shall not be liable under this Act in respect of the continuation of the offence during the period or extended period, if any, allowed by the court, but if, on the expiry of such period or extended period, as the case may be, the order of the court has not been fully complied with, the employer shall be deemed to have committed a further offence and shall be punished with imprisonment in respect thereof under section 14 and shall also be liable to pay fine which may extend to one hundred rupees for every day after such expiry on which the order has not been complied with.
From India, Delhi
I have tried to give all possible penalties, which can an employer faced due to not depositing the Provident Fund amount, under the Provision of PF Act. Which in nut shell says that the Principal Employer will be arrested and sentenced to the imprisonment.
Although the following may be long but I am sure you will get your answer in that.....
The following extract, section wise is from the Provident Fund Act.
7C. Determination of escaped amount. - Where an order determining the amount due from an employer under section 7A or section 7B has been passed and if the officer who passed the orders –
(a) has reason to believe that by reason of the omission or failure on the part of the employer to make any document or report available, or to disclose, fully and truly, all material facts necessary for determining the correct amount due from the employer, any amount so due from such employer for any period has escaped his notice;
(b) has, in consequence of information in his possession, reason to believe that any amount to be determined under section 7A or section 7B has escaped from his determination for any period notwithstanding that there has been no omission or failure as mentioned in clause a on the part of the employer,
he may, within a period of five years from the date of communication of the order passed under section 7A or section 7B, re-open the case and pass appropriate orders re-determining the amount due from the employer in accordance with the provisions of this Act:
Provided that no order re-determining the amount due from the employer shall be passed under this section unless the employer is given a reasonable opportunity of representing his case.
8. Mode of recovery of moneys due from employers– any amount due -
(a) from the employer in relation to an establishment to which any Scheme or the Insurance Scheme applies in respect of any contribution payable to the Fund or, as the case may be, the Insurance Fund, damages recoverable under section 14B, accumulations required to be transferred under sub-section 2 of section 15 or under sub-section 5 of section 17 or any charges payable by him under any other provision of this Act or of any provision of the Scheme or the Insurance Scheme; or
(b) from the employer in relation to an exempted establishment in respect of any damages recoverable under section 14B or any charges payable by him the appropriate Government under any provision of this Act or under any of the conditions specified under section 17 or in respect of the contribution payable by him towards the Pension Scheme under the said section 17,
may, if the amount is in arrear, be recovered in the manner specified in section 8B to 8G.
8A. Recovery of moneys by employers and contractors.
(1) The amount of contribution that is to say, the employer’s contribution as well as the employee’s contribution in pursuance of any Scheme and the employer’s contribution in pursuance of the Insurance Scheme and any charges for meeting the cost of administering the Fund paid or payable by an employer in respect of an employee employed by or through a contractor may be recovered by such employer from the contractor, either by deduction from any amount payable to the contractor under any contract or as a debt payable by the contractor.
(2) A contractor from whom the amounts mentioned in sub-section 1 may be recovered in respect of any employee employed by or through him, may recover from such employee the employee’s contribution under any Scheme by deduction from the basic wages, dearness allowance and retaining allowance if any payable to such employee.
(3) Notwithstanding any contract to the contrary, no contractor shall be entitled to deduct the employer’s contribution or the charges referred to in sub-section 1 from the basic wages, dearness allowance, and retaining allowance if any payable to an employee employed by or through him or otherwise to recover such contribution or charges from such employee.
Explanation. – In this section, the expressions “dearness allowance” and “retaining allowance” shall have the same meanings as in section 6.
8B. Issue of certificate to the Recovery Officer.
(1) Where any amount is in arrear under section8, the authorised officer may issue, to the Recovery Officer, a certificate under his signature specifying the amount of arrears and the Recovery Officer, on receipt of such certificate, shall proceed to recover the amount specified therein from the establishment or, as the case may be, the employer by one or more of the modes mentioned below:-
(a) attachment and sale of the movable or immovable property of the establishment or, as the case may be, the employer;
(b) arrest of the employer and his detention in prison;
(c) appointing a receiver for the management of the movable or immovable properties of the establishment or, as the case may be, the employer:
Provided that the attachment and sale of any property under this section shall first be effected against the properties of the establishment and where such attachment and sale is insufficient for recovery the whole of the amount of arrears specified in the certificate, the Recovery Officer may take such proceedings against the property of the employer for recovery of the whole or any part of such arrears.
(2) The authorised officer may issue a certificate under sub-section 1, notwithstanding that proceedings for recovery of the arrears by any other mode have been taken.
8C. Recovery officer to whom certificate is to be forwarded.
(1) The authorised officer may forward the certificate referred to in section 8B to the Recovery Officer within whose jurisdiction the employer –
(a) carries on his business or profession or within whose jurisdiction the principal place of his establishment is situated; or
(b) resides or any movable or immovable property of the establishment or the employer is situated.
(2) Where an establishment or the employer has property within the jurisdiction of more than one Recovery Officers and the Recovery Officer to whom a certificate is sent by the authorised officer -
(a) is not able to recover the entire amount by the sale of the property movable or immovable, within his jurisdiction; or
(b) is of the opinion that, for the purpose of expediting or securing the recovery of the whole or any part of the amount, it is necessary so to do,
he may send the certificate or, where only a part of the amount is to be recovered, a copy of the certificate certified in the prescribed manner and specifying the amount to be recovered to the Recovery Officer within whose jurisdiction the establishment or the employer has property or the employer resides, and thereupon that Recovery Officer shall also proceed to recover the amount due under this section as if the certificate or the copy thereof had been the certificate sent to him by the authorised officer.
8F. Other modes of recovery.
(1) Notwithstanding the issue of a certificate to the Recovery Officer under section 8B, the Central Provident Fund Commissioner or any other officer authorised by the Central Board may recover the amount by any one or more of the modes provided in this section.
(2) If any amount is due from any person to any employer who is in arrears, the Central Provident Fund Commissioner or any other officer authorised by the Central Board in this behalf may require such person to deduct from the said amount the arrears due from such employer under this Act, and such person shall comply with any such requisition and shall pay the sum so deducted to the credit of the Central Provident Fund Commissioner or the officer so authorised, as the case may be:
Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall apply to any part of the amount exempt from attachment in execution of a decree of a civil court under section 60 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908).
(3) (i) The Central Provident Fund Commissioner or any other officer authorised by the Central Board in this behalf may, at any time or from time to time, by notice in writing, require any person from whom money is due or may become due to the employer or, as the case may be, the establishment or any person who holds or may subsequently hold money for or on account of the employer or as the case may be, the establishment, to pay to the Central Provident Fund Commissioner either forthwith upon the money becoming due or being held or at or within the time specified in the notice not being before the money becomes due or is held so much of the money as is sufficient to pay the amount due from the employer in respect of arrears or the whole of the money when it is equal to or less than that amount.
(ii) A notice under this sub-section may be issued to any person who holds or may subsequently hold any money for or on account of the employer jointly with any other person and for the purposes of this sub-section, the shares of the joint holders in such account shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, to be equal.
(iii) A copy of the notice shall be forwarded to the employer at his last address known to the Central Provident Fund Commissioner or as the case may be, the officer so authorised and in the case of a joint account to all the joint holders at their last addresses known to the Central Provident Fund Commissioner or the officer so authorised.
(iv) Save as otherwise provided in this sub-section, every person to whom a notice is issued under this sub-section shall be bound to comply with such notice, and, in particular, where any such notice is issued to a post office, bank or an insurer, it shall not be necessary for any pass book, deposit receipt, policy or any other document to be produced for the purpose of any entry, endorsement or the like being made before payment is made notwithstanding any rule, practice or requirement to the contrary.
(v) Any claim respecting any property in relation to which a notice under this sub-section has been issued arising after the date of the notice shall be void as against any demand contained in the notice.
(vi) Where a person to whom a notice under this sub-section is sent objects to it by a statement on oath that the sum demanded or any part thereof is not due to the employer or that he does not hold any money for or on account of the employer, then nothing contained in this sub-section shall be deemed to require such person to pay any such sum or part thereof, as the case may be, but if it is discovered that such statement was false in any material particular, such person shall be personally liable to the Central Provident Fund Commissioner or the officer so authorised to extent of his own liability to the employer on the date of the notice, or to the extent of the employer’s liability for any sum due under this Act, whichever is less.
(vii) The Central Provident Fund Commissioner or the officer so authorised may, at any time or from time to time, amend or revoke any notice issued under this sub-section or extend the time for making any payment in pursuance of such notice.
(viii) The Central Provident Fund Commissioner or the officer so authorised shall grant a receipt for any amount paid in compliance with a notice issued under this sub-section, and the person so paying shall be fully discharged from his liability to the employer to the extent of the amount so paid.
(ix) Any person discharging any liability to the employer after the receipt of a notice under this sub-section shall be personally liable to the Central Provident Fund Commissioner or the officer so authorised to the extent of his own liability to the employer so discharged or to the extent of the employer’s liability for any sum due under this Act, whichever is less.
(x) If the person to whom a notice under this sub-section is sent fails to make payment in pursuance thereof to the Central Provident Fund Commissioner or the officer so authorised he shall be deemed to be an employer in default in respect of the amount specified in the notice and further proceedings may be taken against him for the realisation of the amount as if it were an arrear due from him, in the manner provided in sections 8B to 8E and the notice shall have the same effect as an attachment of a debt by the Recovery Officer in exercise of his powers under section 8B.
(4) The Central Provident Fund Commissioner or the officer authorised by the Central Board in this behalf may apply to the court in whose custody there is money belonging to the employer for payment to him of the entire amount of such money, or if it is more than the amount due, an amount sufficient to discharge the amount due.
(5) The Central Provident Fund Commissioner or any officer not below the rank of Assistant Provident Fund Commissioner may, if so authorised by the Central Government by general or special order, recover any arrears of amount due from an employer or, as the case may be, from the establishment by distraint and sale of his or its movable property in the manner laid down in the Third Schedule to the Income-Tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961).
14. Penalties.
(1) Whoever, for the purpose of avoiding any payment to be made by himself under this Act, the Scheme, the Pension Scheme or the Insurance Scheme or of enabling any other person to avoid such payment, knowingly makes or causes to be made any false statement or false representation shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine of five thousand rupees, or with both.
(1A) An employer who contravenes, or makes default in complying with, the provisions of section 6 or clause a of sub-section 3 of section 17 in so far as it relates to the payment of inspection charges, or paragraph 38 of the Scheme in so far as it relates to the payment of administrative charges, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years but –
(a) which shall not be less than one year and a fine of ten thousand rupees in case of default in payment of the employees’ contribution which has been deducted by the employer from the employees’ wages;
(b) which shall not be less than six months and a fine of five thousand rupees, in any other case:
Provided that the Court may, for any adequate and special reasons to be recorded in the judgment, impose a sentence of imprisonment for a lesser term.
(1B) An employer who contravenes, or makes default in complying with, the provisions of section 6C, or clause a of sub-section 3A of section 17 in so far as it relates to the payment of inspection charges, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year but which shall not be less than six months and shall also be liable to fine which may extend to five thousand rupees:
Provided that the Court may, for any adequate and special reasons to be recorded in the judgment, impose a sentence of imprisonment for a lesser term.
(2) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Scheme, the Pension Scheme or the Insurance Scheme may provide that any person who contravenes, or makes default in complying with, any of the provisions thereof shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine which may extend to four thousand rupees, or with both.
(2A) Whoever contravenes or makes default in complying with any provision of this Act or of any condition subject to which exemption was granted under section 17 shall, if no other penalty is elsewhere provided by or under this Act for such contravention or non-compliance, be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to six months, but which shall not be less than one month, and shall also be liable to fine which may extend to five thousand rupees.
14B. Power to recover damages - Where an employer makes default in the payment of any contribution to the Fund the Pension Fund or the Insurance Fund or in the transfer of accumulations required to be transferred by him under sub-section 2 of section 15 or sub-section 5 of section 17 or in the payment of any charges payable under any other provision of this Act or of any Scheme or Insurance Scheme or under any of the conditions specified under section 17, the Central Provident Fund Commissioner or such other officer as may be authorised by the Central Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, in this behalf may recover from the employer by way of penalty such damages, not exceeding the amount of arrears, as may be specified in the Scheme.
Provided that before levying and recovering such damages, the employer shall be given a reasonable opportunity of being heard.
Provided further that the Central Board may reduce or waive the damages levied under this section in relation to an establishment which is a sick industrial company and in respect of which a scheme for rehabilitation has been sanctioned by the Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction established under section 4 of the Sick Industrial Companies (Special Provisions) Act, 1985 (1 of 1986), subject to such terms and conditions as may be specified in the Scheme.
14C. Power of court to make orders - (1) Where an employer is convicted of an offence of making default in the payment of any contribution to the Fund, the Pension Fund or the Insurance Fund or in the transfer of accumulations required to be transferred by him under sub-section (2) of section 15 or sub-section (5) of section 17, the court may, in addition to awarding any punishment, by order in writing require him within a period specified in the order which the court may, if it thinks fit and on application in that behalf from time to time, extend, to pay the amount of contribution or transfer the accumulations, as the case may be, in respect of which the offence was committed.
(2) Where an order is made under sub-section (1), the employer shall not be liable under this Act in respect of the continuation of the offence during the period or extended period, if any, allowed by the court, but if, on the expiry of such period or extended period, as the case may be, the order of the court has not been fully complied with, the employer shall be deemed to have committed a further offence and shall be punished with imprisonment in respect thereof under section 14 and shall also be liable to pay fine which may extend to one hundred rupees for every day after such expiry on which the order has not been complied with.
From India, Delhi
Dear Mr.Umesh and Uday,
I will try to do the same.
I believe I have to just go to the court and ask for the gazzert officer.
Kindly give me any idea, how to get this officer.
Dear Mr. malik
One of my ex colleague from the same company has diposited the PF form last week,with an application that the ex epmloyer is not submitting the PF form.So they have taken the form.
But he is daily following up with the PF office,but they are just trasferring the call from one place to another place.
bcoz there are many companies,which have not submitted the PF form.
I would like to share one more thing,that one or two comapies are payeing huge ammount to the PF.
Bcoz if in one year around 25 people are leaving the company,and suppose they have to submitt 100000/- Rs in that year, so they are just paying 35000/- to the PF officer and they sitting without any tention.
Now what to do,whom should we believe.
This is so bad and cheap.
I hope I will be able to get my PF.
Regrads
neha
From India, Mumbai
I will try to do the same.
I believe I have to just go to the court and ask for the gazzert officer.
Kindly give me any idea, how to get this officer.
Dear Mr. malik
One of my ex colleague from the same company has diposited the PF form last week,with an application that the ex epmloyer is not submitting the PF form.So they have taken the form.
But he is daily following up with the PF office,but they are just trasferring the call from one place to another place.
bcoz there are many companies,which have not submitted the PF form.
I would like to share one more thing,that one or two comapies are payeing huge ammount to the PF.
Bcoz if in one year around 25 people are leaving the company,and suppose they have to submitt 100000/- Rs in that year, so they are just paying 35000/- to the PF officer and they sitting without any tention.
Now what to do,whom should we believe.
This is so bad and cheap.
I hope I will be able to get my PF.
Regrads
neha
From India, Mumbai
Hi,
Can some one help me,
My friend is working in a company as a HR Executive, In the month of March he deduct the pf rs. 750.00 of one person on dated 5th and the person was on leave at the time of salary and after that the person was abscond from the company till date the person take advance also. the amount was Rs. 2000.00.
Now the person was not given any response. so he did not submit his pf Amount in the mean time he submit his pf Annual return.
So please guide in this reguards.
Prasad
From India, Pune
Can some one help me,
My friend is working in a company as a HR Executive, In the month of March he deduct the pf rs. 750.00 of one person on dated 5th and the person was on leave at the time of salary and after that the person was abscond from the company till date the person take advance also. the amount was Rs. 2000.00.
Now the person was not given any response. so he did not submit his pf Amount in the mean time he submit his pf Annual return.
So please guide in this reguards.
Prasad
From India, Pune
My present employer has deducting pf contribution on regular basis till now but he had not deposited of pf for the m/o from June’14 to Jan’15 what should i do for that ple explain me
From India, Jaipur
From India, Jaipur
Company which deducts PF money from employees and fails to deposit on monthly basis will not be compelled to pay the amounts + interest.
Interest rate depends on number of days the PF contribution is outstanding for deposit.
If you still find your employer has not deposited the deducted PF with the trust or EPF, you can file a complaint with either Regional PF Commissioner of the area or a criminal case against your employer with the police or complain to the chief vigilance officer appointed by the labour ministry.
You have to produce a copy of your salary slip showing deduction, which is not found reflected in your a/c balance.
From India, Pune
Interest rate depends on number of days the PF contribution is outstanding for deposit.
If you still find your employer has not deposited the deducted PF with the trust or EPF, you can file a complaint with either Regional PF Commissioner of the area or a criminal case against your employer with the police or complain to the chief vigilance officer appointed by the labour ministry.
You have to produce a copy of your salary slip showing deduction, which is not found reflected in your a/c balance.
From India, Pune
Ms. Shilpi principal employer is only liable to pay the wages to the contract workmen in case contractor fails to pay, however principal employer is not liable for any other statutory deductions.
From India, Mumbai
From India, Mumbai
Can anyone help me in knowing what can be done if an employees Pf is deducted while paying his salary and bimastake it was not contributed to his pf account ,the column in the ECRfile_Template_v2.0 (gross wage , EPF wage, EPS wage ,EDLI Wage ) were filled and other columns of (EPF contribution remitted ,Eps contribution remitted, Epf Epd difference) were left Nil bimistake , how can I pay his pf amount ? Can I pay the amount in next month .And the issue is that person has left the company in October and I have not paid his pf of the month . How can i pay his pf amount in next month if he is not working in that month.
From India, Bengaluru
From India, Bengaluru
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