Dear John,
Your Company auditor has advised you correctly to pay the LWF in respective places. It is basically wrong to pay the LWF at one place when your establishment has been located at different places that too in three different states.I think it is more important you to understand the very purpose of labour welfare fund ,which refers to basic facilities provided to labour by the STATE in order to improve their working conditions, provide social security and raise their standard of living particularly for the working class in unorganized sector. Now the labour welfare fund deposited in Chennai for the workers who are working in Coimbatore & Kerala has no access to the labor welfare fund schemes available in Chennai.All three states have framed their own labour welfare funds acts for the working class in their states,as such you may go through those and comply with their rules.
As regards the postings of Sh Adoni Suguresh,I wish to clarify him that the labour welfare funds run by the State Government or Central Government are quite different and has no relevence with one another.The Central Government collects cess from the employers and frames various welfare schemes for the mines, beedi and cine workers whereas the states collects the labour welfare funds from the employers of establishments,factories etc to provide various labour welfare schemes to their working class, which differs from states to states.
BS Kalsi