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Want months off work without losing your job? In India, sabbatical leave rests on your employer’s policy, except for senior university teachers, who have their own rule.
Ashwiniba Vaghela
HR & Payroll Experts
Useful, kind gifts for colleagues at three budgets, plus how to run a fair office gift swap that includes every shift.
Ashwiniba Vaghela
HR & Payroll Experts
EPS 95 pension now runs under a 2026 scheme. Who qualifies, how the monthly pension is worked out, the minimum, and what changed for employers.
Ashwiniba Vaghela
HR & Payroll Experts
Hiring someone, or being checked yourself? Here are the six background verification checks, what each one proves, and the data rules that apply from May 2027.
Ashwiniba Vaghela
HR & Payroll Experts
Central government service gives a father 15 paid days. Private employers decide through their own policy, because the four labour codes are silent on paternity leave.
Ashwiniba Vaghela
HR & Payroll Experts
Tax on a festival payout is not a flat percentage, and the money does not always move in the same tax year the charge lands. Both catch payroll teams out.
Ashwiniba Vaghela
HR & Payroll Experts
A Diwali shift pays extra on a declared holiday, after eight hours, or on a weekly off worked. Here is what each case pays.
Ashwiniba Vaghela
HR & Payroll Experts
Statutory bonus moved to a new law in November 2025. The rate and the timetable came through unchanged. The duty to hand it over in cash was reversed.
Ashwiniba Vaghela
HR & Payroll Experts
No law passed by Parliament turns Diwali into a paid day off. The duty sits with your state, and with whatever holiday list you published yourself.
Ashwiniba Vaghela
HR & Payroll Experts
What each document is, and why only the experience letter can be demanded, and only from a larger employer. A relieving letter rests on company practice alone.
Ashwiniba Vaghela
HR & Payroll Experts
Minimum wages by state come down to four inputs. One is in the Code, two are in a notification, and the last one is sitting in your own employee records.
Ashwiniba Vaghela
HR & Payroll Experts
A weekly off sounds simple until payroll asks what it costs. The six-day limit is national. The day itself, and the pay, turn on whether central or state rules reach you.
Ashwiniba Vaghela
HR & Payroll Experts
Most guides treat half day leave as a fixed entitlement with fixed rules. It is not one. Here is what the codes actually settle, what your own policy has to, and how much money sits on the difference.
Ashwiniba Vaghela
HR & Payroll Experts
Leave without pay does more than dock a day’s salary. It reaches your provident fund, your ESI, the service behind a gratuity payment and the balance you build for the year ahead.
Ashwiniba Vaghela
HR & Payroll Experts
Repealed in November 2025, and what replaced it asks more of you, not less. Work that runs past 120 days stops being intermittent, the licence caps how many people a contractor may supply, and the welfare bill splits in a way few businesses have priced.
Ashwiniba Vaghela
HR & Payroll Experts
They bind one narrow group of employers and nobody else. But every state is now drafting from them, so the eight-hour day, the ten-day ceiling and the Form V payslip are worth reading whoever you are.
Ashwiniba Vaghela
HR & Payroll Experts
Registration is online, real time, and needs no paper at all. The state that wants 20 workers where its neighbour wants 10, what the C-11 letter proves, and why the amnesty no longer helps.
Ashwiniba Vaghela
HR & Payroll Experts
The qualifying period for earned leave fell from 240 days to 180 on 21 November 2025. What every section of a leave policy has to say now, and the refused-leave rule that has no cap at all.
Ashwiniba Vaghela
HR & Payroll Experts
The five-year rule survived 21 November 2025. What moved was the amount each year is worth, and the shorter qualifying period that fixed-term staff now get.
Ashwiniba Vaghela
HR & Payroll Experts
Filing and paying are no longer one action. From wage month September 2025 the return goes up first and the money follows. Here is what to do on the employer portal, and how to correct a return you have already sent.
Ashwiniba Vaghela
HR & Payroll Experts
The government pays for new hires under the scheme once called ELI. A first timer can draw up to ₹15,000, and an employer as much as ₹3,000 a month per hire. Who qualifies, and the baseline rule that catches new businesses.
Ashwiniba Vaghela
HR & Payroll Experts
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
HR & Payroll Experts
