Telangana Act No. 34 of 1987

What it says

The Andhra Pradesh Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1987 as adapted to Telangana in 2016. Section 10 fixes yearly contributions of ₹2 from each employee and ₹5 from the employer for each employee. Section 2(4) defines the establishments covered; its twenty-person qualifier can be read as applying to every shops-Act establishment or only to societies and trusts.

What was taken from it

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Coverage

Section 2(4) covers factories, motor transport undertakings, and establishments under the shops Act, and includes societies and charitable or other trusts carrying on a business or trade; it attaches a line of twenty or more persons employed on any working day in the preceding twelve months, and excludes Government establishments that are not factories. How far the twenty-person line reaches is set out in the caveat.

Coverage.Caveat

Section 2(4)(iii) can be read as setting the twenty-person line for every shops-Act establishment, or only for the societies and trusts it names. Both readings cover an establishment of twenty or more; below twenty the Act's wording does not settle it.

Employee

2

Employee Definition

An employee is anyone employed for hire or reward for thirty days in twelve months, but not someone employed mainly as a manager, a supervisor drawing more than ₹1,600 a month or doing mainly managerial work, or an apprentice or part-time employee (section 2(2)).

Employer

5

Headcount Threshold

20 or more persons

Rate

Every employee contributes ₹2 a year to the fund and every employer ₹5 a year for each employee; the employer may recover the employee's share by deduction from wages (section 10).

Where this is cited

• Labour welfare fund · Telangana