If a company asks a staff member to leave and provides one month's notice pay, the company deducts PF from this amount and includes it in the full and final statement. However, in Form 16, the company does not reflect this PF deduction. After a year, they claim that PF does not apply to notice pay and that they never remitted this amount to the PF office, despite deducting it from the employee. What is the best course of action to recover this deducted amount?
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Wages paid in lieu of notice is not basic wages as per sec 2 (b of EPF Act.Hence recovery need not be made from it towards EPF. Varghese Mathew 09961266966
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Dear Queriest, You are entitled to get refund of the amount wrongly deducted by your employer. You need to write a letter to your employer.
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You should ask them to return the amount with interest (as applicable for EPF for the period the money was with them) within a specific period, say, one month. If no action is taken by them to return the money, you can file a complaint with the EPF authorities, informing them that although the employer has deducted the amount for EPF, they have failed to deposit the same with the EPF authorities, which is a criminal offense.
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Dear qureshi, pls approach your past employer for refund of amount otherwise you will free for file complain, against co.
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