Bonus Payment To Apprentice

Hi!
Are apprentices eligible for Bonus as per the payment of Bonus Act?
Regards
Amit

Apprentices registered under the Apprentices Act, are in the organisation only for on the job training. They are not entitled to bonus.
Regards
P.Arun Kumar

Hi there!
Apprentices are not covered under any labour laws except Workmen Compensation Act.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
- Hiten

Dear Hiten,
Apprentices are covered by Apprentices Act, 1961. They are also covered by ID Act. Rest no act is applicable to them.
Regards,
Nilendra

Dear All
The defenition of employee in the Bonus Act is like this :
13) "employee" means any person (other than an apprentice) employed on a salary or wage not exceeding ten thousand per mensem in any industry to do any skilled or unskilled manual, supervisory, managerial, administrative, technical or clerical work for hire or reward, whether the terms of employment be express or implied;
So Apprentices are outside the defenition itself.
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If the Trainees are Summer Interns then they are not eligible for Bonus. If they are recruits of the company and PF is deducted from their Salary/Stipend and their Salary/Stipend is less than or equal to 10000 they they are eligible for bonus also if they have served for 30 days in the FY.
Regards,
Nilendra

Nilendra is right.
The basic conditions for ascertaining whether a trainee is covered under the Payment of Bonus is as follows -
a) The trainee should be under the rolls of the Company.
b) The stipend should be less than Rs.10,000 p.m.
c) The trainee should have worked for atleast 30days in the financial year for which the bonus is being paid.
d) Normally some Companies pay bonus to the trainees under the heading of "Special payments" and do not call it as Bonus.
e) Also some Companies follow the rule of mentioning in the notice/letter - that payment of bonus/special payment to the trainees does not construe the fact that any permanent status is being given to them in the Company.
Regards
P.Arun Kumar

Apprentices under the Apprentices Act are not eligible for Bonus as they are not workmen under the Payment of Bonus Act. But, for this, the contract of apprenticeship has to be registered. In absence of this, the status of the apprentice can be subject to dispute.
Regds.
Ranjit J. Pandya

Hi! Nilendra,
Any trainee hired under Apprentice act is not eligile for Bonus or PF/ESI etc.
If in case of a trainee/summer trainee PF is calculated then they basic salary. Bonus is calculated on PF basic.
Regards
Ammit

arun, can yu give me some authority for what yu have said regarding payment of bonus to trainees, as in how did yu come to this conclusion?...statute? judgment?....