How Does the New EPFO UAN Allotment Process Affect Employers and New Employees?

With reference to the EPFO circular dated 21st November 2017, the EPFO has stated that due to difficulties faced by employers with a large number of new joiners each month, an open functionality is being provided at the Unified Portal through which any citizen (prospective employee) can generate his/her UAN based on Aadhaar. The citizen can submit the generated UAN to the employer so that it will be linked to the member ID allotted to the member in that establishment.

Dear Santhanakrishnan,

Thank you for the input. This will take a whole lot of load off HR and also place the responsibility for the correctness of data on the prospective employee.