Navigating National Holiday Pay: How to Handle Double Wages and PF-ESIC Contributions?

I would like to gain proper information and clarification regarding wages paid for working on national holidays and compensatory off for the same.

We worked in some departments of our organization after approval from the local labor inspector. Now, we need to pay double wages and compensatory off to the employees who worked on the national holiday. However, I have some doubts and concerns:

Questions Regarding Wages and Compensatory Off

1. Should double wages be paid with PF-ESIC or without PF-ESIC?

2. If yes, then how can we submit contributions to PF-ESIC for 32 days?

3. How do we calculate the salary for 32 days?

4. Should we treat this as Overtime/Good Work and only calculate ESIC for that?

Thank you.

In my opinion, working on a national or festival holiday for double wages is akin to overtime work, and the additional wages for such holidays should be considered as overtime wages only.