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The phrase earned leave is in the labour code on safety and working conditions. Accrued leave is not. And earned leave belongs to two jobs most of your staff do not hold.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Two separate Codes carry overtime rules, and they disagree on who is covered, what a part-hour is worth, and whether anyone can be made to stay late.
Avani Joshi
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One form carries the employee’s tax claims in, the other carries the employer’s certificate out. Both were renumbered on 1 April 2026.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Five warning letter formats, one per tone, ready to adapt, plus the path from warning to show cause to termination.
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HR & Payroll Experts
A worked example for every payment that runs on a day rate, from an absent day to gratuity, all on one salary. Plus the one case where the law picks the number for you.
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One month, one employee, three ways to calculate attendance percentage. The formula is never the problem. What you divide by is, and it decides what a day of absence costs.
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No Code names a night shift allowance rate. What it settles is the calendar, the consent and the deductions, and those cost more than the figure most employers argue over.
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Three instruments set the notice period rules in India, and only two of them are the Code. The third is the letter you wrote when the person joined.
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Most employee codes break for the same reason: somebody asked them to describe a person as well as identify one. Here is a format that survives a transfer.
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Most duty roster format templates give you a grid and stop. The grid is the easy half: the Code decides the hours, the handover and how often you may change it.
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Probation has a stated length again: six months, extendable by three, from 8 May 2026. Who that binds, who still writes their own number, and why PF and ESI never paused for probation at all.
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The question asks what you would cost, not what you would receive. Seven lines to use in an interview, the reasoning that backs each of them, and why the law measures a different figure from the one in an offer.
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One form per benefit, one office, and a three-day rule on medical certificates that quietly costs people money. What each claim pays, and how fast ESIC has to pay it.
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₹21,000 a month, unchanged since 2017. The three routes that bring a workplace into the scheme, why a raise in July does not end cover in July, and the 135 districts still outside it.
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Education now allows ten claims and marriage five, where three covered both before. What the October 2025 rules changed, who qualifies after 12 months, and why the COVID advance is no longer on the list.
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A letter of intent states an intention. An offer letter is a proposal. Neither creates a contract by itself, and the Contract Act fixes a hard deadline after which you can no longer pull an offer back.
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EPFO paid 8.25% to its members this July. Who fixes that figure, what it is worked out on, and why a passbook can sit unchanged for months after the number makes the news.
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For HR and plant managers: the six rules that bind a factory employer now that the 1948 Act has gone, including the headcount change that decides whether your unit still counts as a factory at all.
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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.
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Statutory bonus moved to the Code on Wages in November 2025. The rate and the thirty-day test survived. The duty to hand it over in cash did not.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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₹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.
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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.
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Two products built for different companies: one bundles the attendance device, the other assumes you already have an HR team. Which fits yours?
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Attendo supplies the attendance device itself, on a bill that does not move when you hire. Zimyo charges per user per month and leaves the device to a third-party supplier. Who owns that device turns out to be the decision that matters most.
Avani Joshi
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The four Attendo updates that landed in 2026, what problem each one fixes, and what actually changes for the admin who uses them daily.
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Your employees open the Attendo (formerly Petpooja Payroll) app to mark attendance or check their pay slip. While they’re there, they spot a 20% off deal at a restaurant two streets away. They tap it, grab lunch at a discount, and walk back feeling like the company just gave them a perk. That’s the Nearby
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How Attendo tracks employee loans and arrears in one place, with a per-employee record and deductions that carry across pay cycles.
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What gets recorded when a field employee is tracked, how the licence is billed, and when plain attendance with a geofence is the better answer.
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How field sales attendance actually gets verified, what GPS and a selfie prove together, and where the payroll leak really comes from.
Avani Joshi
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Which attendance device suits your floor, what a face scanner does that a card cannot, and when a fingerprint reader is still the better buy.
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Spreadsheet payroll rarely breaks loudly. It leaks an hour here and a wrong deduction there. Here is what changes once a system does the counting.
Avani Joshi
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Two capable products built for different jobs: one arrives with the attendance device in the box, the other goes wider on HR. Which one fits your team?
Avani Joshi
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Month-end payroll rarely fails loudly. It leaks hours into reconciliation and rupees into corrections, one cycle at a time.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Every feature in Attendo, what it does on a working day, and the statutory deductions it handles without a separate compliance tool.
Avani Joshi
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Attendo bundles an attendance device with payroll on a flat annual fee. Keka prices per employee above a seat threshold and leaves the hardware to a third-party supplier. For most shift-based businesses, that hardware question decides it.
Avani Joshi
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Attendance, leave, shifts and overtime all land in the same salary figure. Here is the path a punch takes to become a payslip.
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A punch at the door, a shift rule, an approved leave, and a salary at the end of it. Here is what sits between them.
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Seasonal hiring, a new branch, a growth year: each one moves your software bill under one pricing model and leaves it untouched under the other. Plus six things to ask any vendor before you sign.
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Most cost figures in payroll articles are somebody’s estimate. Here is how to work out your own, and what to compare it against.
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