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First Schedule Applicability

Code on Social Security, 2020 · Edition: Original Gazette text, assent 28th September, 2020

[See sections 1(4), (8) and 152 (1)]

                                                APPLICABILITY
 Chapter             Chapter    Heading                           Applicability
 No.
 (1)                          (2)                                        (3)
 III     Employees'      Provident    Fund      Every     establishment         in  which     twenty      or  more
                                                employees     are  employed.
 IV      Employees’      State  Insurance       Every   establishment      in which    ten  or more    persons   are
         Corporation                            employed      other  than   a seasonal    factory:
                                                      Provided     that Chapter    IV  shall  also  be  applicable
                                                to an  establishment,      which   carries   on  such   hazardous
                                                or life threatening    occupation     as notified  by  the  Central
                                                Government,        in  which    even    a  single   employee       is
                                                employed:
                                                      Provided     further  that  an employer     of a plantation,
                                                may   opt  the application    of  Chapter    IV  in respect   of the
                                                plantation    by  giving    willingness     to  the  corporation,
                                                where    the  benefits   available    to  the  employees      under
                                                that  Chapter     are  better    than   what    the  employer      is
                                                providing    to them:
                                                      Provided      also   that  the   contribution      from    the
                                                employers     and  employees      of an  establishment     shall  be
                                                payable   under   section   29 on  and  from   the  date  on which
                                                any  benefits  under   Chapter    IV  relating  to the Employees
                                                State   Insurance      Corporation       are   provided     by   the
                                                Corporation     to the  employees     of the  establishment      and
                                                such  date  shall  be  notified  by  the  Central   Government.
 V       Gratuity                               (a)  every   factory,   mine,   oilfield,  plantation,    port   and
                                                railway   company;     and
                                                (b)  every   shop   or establishment      in which    ten  or  more
                                                employees      are  employed,     or  were    employed,     on   any
                                                day  of  the  preceding     twelve    months;    and   such   shops
                                                or establishments     as  may   be  notified  by  the  appropriate
                                                Government      from   time  to time.
 VI      Maternity    Benefit                   (a)  to  every   establishment      being    a  factory,   mine    or
                                                plantation   including    any  such   establishment     belonging
                                                to Government;       and
                                                (b) to every   shop   or establishment     in which    ten or  more
                                                employees      are  employed,     or  were    employed,     on   any
                                                day  of  the  preceding     twelve    months;     and  such    other
                                                shops   or  establishments       notified   by   the  appropriate
                                                Government.
 VII     Employee's     Compensation            Subject    to the  provisions     of  the  Second     Schedule,    it
                                                applies   to  the   employers      and   employees       to  whom
                                                Chapter    IV  does   not  apply.
 (1)                          (2)                                        (3)
 VIII    Social   Security   and   Cess   in    Every   establishment     which    falls under   the building    and
         respect   of Building    and           other  construction     work.
         Other   Construction      Workers
 IX      Social   Security   for                Unorganised      sector,  unorganised     workers',    gig worker,
         Unorganised      Workers'              platform   worker.
 XIII    Employment       Information           Career   centres,   vacancies,    persons    seeking   services    of
         and   Monitoring                       career   centres   and  employers.

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