Attendo HR Blog
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.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
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.
Avani Joshi
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
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.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
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.
Avani Joshi
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HR and payroll teams: conveyance allowance for duty travel has no maximum, and the ₹1,600 figure everyone quotes was withdrawn in 2018.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
