EPF Contribution Payable On 'Basic Wages' Camouflaged As Allowances: SC [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court has held that, in order that the amount goes beyond the 'basic wages' for the purposes of the Employees' Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952, it has to be shown by the employer that the workman concerned had become eligible to get this extra amount beyond the normal work which he was otherwise required to put in. The bench comprising Justice...