PF for contract employees

IN Media Watch Briefs | 28/05/2012
A Regional PF Commissioner in Kochi has ordered that the journalists and non-journalist employees working on contract basis in the  Kochi unit of the New Indian Express are eligible for Provident  Fund benefits. He rejected the NIE management's claim that the journalist and non-journalist's of the  NIE, Kochi are not employees and  hence they are not entitled to EPF benefit.