Right !
I made assumptions I can't verify. It's probably bias of seeing how companies work (I head the legal compliance audit team of progress partners). I will wait for the original poster to provide us further details.
As best practice, (for knowledge of all of us to add), the company should ask for details of PF registration from the contractor. They should make it clear that copies need to be provided of the challan. Most of our clients follow a practice of holding back payment of next month if the chalans are not produced.
Payment under own code is to be made only if there is no possibility of the contractor paying on his own. Paying PF of contract workers in own code is a bad practice in any case, even if allowed. In fact companies today have stopped taking contractors who do not have PF esic registration.
The point I was trying to make is that even if the company is at fault for not checking things, they will not refund the amount. They will go out of the way to protect their back side.
I made assumptions I can't verify. It's probably bias of seeing how companies work (I head the legal compliance audit team of progress partners). I will wait for the original poster to provide us further details.
As best practice, (for knowledge of all of us to add), the company should ask for details of PF registration from the contractor. They should make it clear that copies need to be provided of the challan. Most of our clients follow a practice of holding back payment of next month if the chalans are not produced.
Payment under own code is to be made only if there is no possibility of the contractor paying on his own. Paying PF of contract workers in own code is a bad practice in any case, even if allowed. In fact companies today have stopped taking contractors who do not have PF esic registration.
The point I was trying to make is that even if the company is at fault for not checking things, they will not refund the amount. They will go out of the way to protect their back side.