Can Employers Deduct Their PF Contribution from Your Last Pay if You Leave Early?

Policy on Deducting Employer PF Contribution

Can an employer create a policy that if an employee leaves the job before six months, the PF amount contributed by the employer will be deducted from their last salary?

Employer Contribution to PF and Legal Implications

This is not provided in the Act; indeed, there is a specific provision that employer contribution of PF cannot be deducted from the earnings of the employee (Section 12). In case you still deduct the contribution paid to PF, this would be a breach of the Act, and accordingly, the penal provisions in the EPF Act 1952 will be attracted.

KK is right. Any deduction of amounts already paid would amount to illegal deduction under the Payment of Wages Act, apart from being a violation of the PF Act.