Labour welfare fund
When to pay, how much.
Chhattisgarh's fund takes two per-worker amounts every half-year, sets a floor on what an employer pays in total, and has the State Government match the employer for every worker.
Not yet verified against an official source- Employee
- ₹15 a half-year, for each employee on the establishment's register on 30 June and 31 DecemberSection 9(2)(a) of the Chhattisgarh Shram Kalyan Nidhi Adhiniyam, 1982, as substituted by notification F 10-1/2011/16 of 21.03.2012
- Employer, for each employee
- ₹45 a half-yearThe same
- Employer minimum
- ₹1,500 a half-year, whatever the headcountAt ₹45 for each employee the floor is what binds below about thirty-four workers; above that the per-worker amount is the largerThe proviso to section 9(2)(a), as substituted by the same notification
- The State Government
- After July and January each year the Welfare Commissioner sends the State Government a statement of each employer's total contribution, and the State Government then pays the Board an amount equal to the employer's contribution for that establishmentSection 9(8)
- When it is paid
- The employer pays both its own and the employees' shares to the Board before 15 July and 15 January each yearSection 9(3), as substituted by the same notification
- Deducting the employee's share
- The employer may recover the employee's share by deducting it from wages, and that deduction counts as authorised under the Payment of Wages Act, 1936. It may never exceed the amount due from that employee, and may only come out of the June and December wages — unless it was missed for unavoidable recorded reasons, when it may be taken from a later month after written notice to the InspectorSection 9(4)
- The employer's own share
- May never be deducted from any wages or recovered from an employee in any other way, whatever a contract saysSection 9(5)
- How it is paid
- By cheque, bank draft, money order or cash, with the cost of sending it borne by the employerSection 9(7)
- Who counts as an employee
- Anyone employed for hire or reward on skilled, semi-skilled, unskilled, manual, clerical, supervisory or technical work in an establishment — but not a person employed mainly in a managerial or administrative capacity, and not a supervisor drawing more than ₹1,600 a month or exercising mainly managerial functionsSection 2(3)
- A factory is covered at any size
- Section 2(5) makes a factory an establishment in its own right, with no headcount attached to itSection 2(5)(i)
- Everyone else's threshold
- Not yet addedSection 2(5)(ii) covers a business or trade establishment employing more than such number of persons as the State Government specifies by notification, and that notification has not been found. No headcount is shown, and Madhya Pradesh's is not borrowed.
- Who is outside it
- A State Government establishment that is not a factory, and a Central Government establishment for which the Centre is the appropriate government under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947Section 2(5), provisos (क) and (ख)
- Changing the rates
- The State Government may revise the employee's and the employer's contribution rates by notification, subject to prior publicationSection 9(9), as inserted by the same notification
- The 2015 amendment
- The Chhattisgarh Shram Kalyan Nidhi (Sanshodhan) Adhiniyam, 2015 — Chhattisgarh Act 26 of 2016, gazetted 11 July 2016 — added a definition of a registered employee and a registration section. It changed no contribution rateChhattisgarh Act 26 of 2016
- The registration form is out of date
- The Board's own establishment registration form, Form “H”, states on its face that it was adapted from section 6(2) of the Chhattisgarh Shops and Establishments Act, 1958 — an Act section 30 of the 2017 Act repeals. The form is live and in use; what is stale is the statute it citesChhattisgarh Shram Kalyan Mandal, Form “H”, rendered 24 September 2026