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For HR and payroll teams: conveyance allowance for duty travel has no maximum, and the ₹1,600 figure everyone quotes was withdrawn in 2018. What rule 280 sets for salary structures now, with three worked examples.
Ashwiniba Vaghela·14 min read
The offer letter is the invitation. This one carries the full terms, and since November 2025 it is compulsory. The eight items every version carries, and the clause that changes for six kinds of hire.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Two rupee figures decide a statutory bonus, and they do different jobs. One sets who the Act reaches, the other sets what the arithmetic runs on. Here is which is which, and what the deadline is.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
The regulations say who allots it, that you only ever get one, and exactly where your employer has to keep it. Where to look, and how to tell the number is right.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
No central law sets it, one large state dropped it from its Act, and ESI pays cash rather than days. What applies where, and what your own rules have to cover.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
The law names two things an experience letter must carry. Everything else is your choice, including the sentences that come back to bite. Here is what to write, and what to leave alone.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
One monthly return, one declaration at joining, and a nomination nobody can file on your behalf. The rest of the numbered forms left years ago.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
₹2 a year in Telangana, ₹35 a month in Haryana. Six states with full rates, every state accounted for, and the deadline most businesses miss.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Nine states, nine answers for the same ₹30,000 salary. Full slabs, every state accounted for, who carries the penalty, and why February costs more.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
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