GURUGRAM: A committee set up to probe the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) and Employees State Insurance (ESI) contributions of MCG’s contractual workers has found that the private firms employing them have not been depositing money to their accounts for the past two years. The firms, which were asked to submit the past two years’ data, presented only six months of records in a meeting here on Wednesday.
“We had asked the two firms, who provide outsourced workers to MCG, to submit the last two years’ data on how much amount of money has been deposited to the EPF and ESI accounts of workers. They submitted only six months’ data, which clearly shows that companies started depositing money in the accounts only after the probe began in September,” said Ravinder Yadav, committee member and councillor of ward number three.
Officials said that the companies have been asked to again present the last two years’ data on November 23 before the committee for the final report on the matter. Despite repeated attempts, the representatives of the private firms did not respond to calls.
“The representatives of the firms said that they never received the attendance records of the contractual workers in time due to which money into the EPF and ESI accounts were not deposited. So, we told them if the attendance record was late by a month, previous month’s EPF amount should have been deposited in the next month’s EPF amount. The representatives also said that the system has now been updated and they will start depositing money in the accounts of workers,” said an MCG official.
The committee was constituted after the issue of firms providing contractual staff to MCG not depositing the EPF and ESI amount of the contractual workers was raised in a House meeting on August 28.