Employees’ Enrolment Scheme 2025: Union Minister for Labour & Employment, Mansukh Mandaviya, on Saturday launched the Employees’ Enrolment Scheme, 2025 at the 73rd Foundation Day celebrations of the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) in Delhi. The scheme aims to promote voluntary compliance and extend social security coverage to all eligible employees across India.
The Employees’ Enrolment Scheme-2025 provides a special window for employers to voluntarily enrol eligible employees who were left out from EPF coverage between July 1, 2017 and October 31, 2025. It also allows them to regularise their past compliance under the Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952.
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According to an official release, the scheme will encourage transparency, ensure universal EPF inclusion, and simplify the process of past regularisation. Notably, this scheme will remain open for six months, from November 1, 2025 to April 30, 2026.
All establishments, irrespective of existing EPF coverage status, can declare any employee engaged by them who joined between July 1, 2017 and October 31, 2025, through the EPFO portal, through this scheme. Also, for such employees, the employee’s contribution has been waived for the declared period if it was not previously deducted. The employer is only required to remit the employer’s share, interest under Section 7Q, administrative charges, and Rs 100 penalty. A lump-sum penalty of Rs 100 per establishment will be considered full compliance across all three EPF schemes.
Moreover, establishments facing inquiries under Section 7A, Para 26B, or Para 8 of EPS-1995 remain eligible, with damages limited to Rs 100 notionally. The EPFO will not initiate any suo-motu compliance action.
The scheme has been rolled out to facilitate wider EPF coverage and formalisation of the workforce through simplified path for employers to regularise past omissions.
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