S-11011/18/2025-INSP/CoSS
ESIC — Applicability of ESI under the Code on Social Security, 2020, circular dated 12.12.2025
- Notification number
- S-11011/18/2025-INSP/CoSS
- Issued for
- Centre
- Date
- 12 December 2025
- Topic
- Notification / circular
What it says
ESIC's own circular on what the Code changes for coverage. It states the ten-or-more-persons test from section 1(4), voluntary coverage below ten under section 1(7), and reproduces the new wages definition in section 2(88), saying coverage is expected to extend to many previously excluded employees. It states no wage ceiling and no contribution rate — an absence that matters, since no Chapter IV ceiling has been notified.
What was taken from it
The figures and statements this desk reads off this document, as extracted. Each one is shown on the topic page it belongs to.
- Circular.Silent On Ceiling
- ESIC's own implementation circular states no wage ceiling and no contribution rate
- Headcount Threshold
- Ten or more persons, other than a seasonal factory
- Voluntary Coverage
- An establishment with fewer than ten employees may register voluntarily
- Wages Redefined
- The wages definition changed, and ESIC expects coverage to widen