Hello Arasu/RL Dhingra,
While appreciating your well-meant suggestions to Pvragav2000, I would also wish to point-out that most of the members posting their problems/issues/situations are looking for ACTIONABLE/REALISTIC suggestions/solutions.
Both of you have been members of CiteHR since >5 yrs now.....by which I presume that you would have noticed the tendency of many members to look @ the legal option [which always exists for any & every issue/situation] AS THE FIRST OPTION. And just because the legal option exists DOESN'T MEAN that it is the MOST APPROPRIATE option for a given situation, since the options to be exercised by a member for his/her problem will have to FACTOR-IN his/her collateral situations/circumstances/situations--whether they allow him/her to go legal or not.
The objective of most CiteHR members who participate in the discussions & keep sharing/giving their suggestions, based on his/her experiences, HAS ALWAYS BEEN to give HOLISTIC SOLUTIONS to the issues raised......in today's management parlance, suggestion(s) based on a 360 deg viewpoint of the issue. And I am sure you would realize that legal recourse WOULD BE JUST ONE OF THE OPTIONS in a 360 deg view.
And there's also one more thing that we, as seniors, NEED TO KEEP IN MIND. Whatever we say/suggest/advice is most often taken @ face value & the newbies just follow them. Now in case an inappropriate [I am NOT using the word 'wrong', since there are no 'Rights' or 'Wrongs' in such situations] suggestion is given & followed that leads to unpleasant consequences, have WE, as seniors who were looked upon to guide, done justice to our collective roles? Food for thought I guess.
This surely DOESN'T mean that legal action is NOT preferred......when the situation demands AS WELL AS the other circumstances.....which are UNIQUE to every posting/case........permit, then most members who give suggestions would strongly support the legal way & there have been legal eagles in this Forum who have guided the thread initiators on how to go about the whole legal process too on various occasions.
Applying the above points/observations to the current issue/thread/problem, like Nathrao mentioned, this lecturer neither contributed to the EPF nor his Employer. Then how would HIS problem get resolved IF he approaches the EPF officials? All that would get highlighted would be that this college didn't go as per rules.
And it doesn't take an Einstein to know as to IF & WHEN this college is forced to begin contributing to the EPF....both by employee & employer.
All this lecturer would be doing is to ensure that those who join after him would benefit.....nothing wrong in this unselfish act per se. But was that the initial objective to begin with? Do you think that he would get his EPF even when the EPF Commissioner takes action on this college....in an as-is-where-is scenario? Surely not....since he hasn't made any contributions.
Maybe, hypothetically, he still can get his EPF.....provided the college makes deductions with retrospective effect for all the 15 yrs from this guy & also add the Employer contributions. Do you find this realistic/doable/actionable? And even if there's a 0.1% chance of this happening, what would the timeline be? And will he be able to spare time, money, effort doing the followups, etc?
Then WHY AT ALL suggest going to the EPF office and waste his time, which I am sure he can put to better use.
It's a different matter IF this lecturer gathers all the staff to protest & takes things TOGETHER.
Hope you get the point & no ILL-WILL MEANT.
@Pvragav2000--
I would agree with Nathrao. Just ask your friend to move-on in career & life....BUT LEARN FROM THIS experience.
Rgds,
TS