{"id":125272,"date":"2020-05-19T01:56:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T20:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=125272"},"modified":"2020-05-19T01:56:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T20:26:28","slug":"no-penalty-for-late-epf-deposit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/05\/19\/no-penalty-for-late-epf-deposit\/","title":{"rendered":"No penalty for late EPF deposit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NAHARLAGUN, May 18:<\/strong> The Employees&#8217; Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) on Friday decided not to penalize employers for delay in depositing provident fund (PF) dues during the lockdown, Assistant PF Commissioner, SSO, Naharlagun S Dey informed in a release.<br \/>\n&#8220;Considering the difficulty faced by the establishments in timely deposit of contributions or administrative charges due for any period during lockdown, the EPFO has decided that<br \/>\nsuch delays due to operational or economic reasons shall not be treated as default and penal damages should not be levied for such delay,&#8221; a press statement issued by the labour and employment ministry, said.<br \/>\n&#8220;The move will ease compliance norms for around 6.5 lakh establishments that make EPF contribution of workers and save them from liability on account of penal damages,&#8221; the release said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAHARLAGUN, May 18: The Employees&#8217; Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) on Friday decided not to penalize employers for delay in depositing provident fund (PF) dues during the lockdown, Assistant PF Commissioner, SSO, Naharlagun S Dey informed in a release. &#8220;Considering the difficulty faced by the establishments in timely deposit of contributions or administrative charges due for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-125272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}