Payroll, labour law and NAPS/NATS, explained.
Practical guidance for Indian employers, written by the people who run the payroll and file the returns rather than by a content desk.
Written by the people who run the payroll
Guidance on payroll, statutory compliance and apprenticeships, for employers running a workforce in India.
Changing your contract labour vendor: what you actually inherit
The people stay. So do the gaps in their records. Here is what to audit before a contractor handover, and how to run the cutover without taking on somebody else's exposure.
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In-House vs Outsourced Payroll: A Practical Guide for Indian SMEs
In-house payroll works well when your workforce is small, simple and in one location. Outsourcing becomes attractive once you have multiple locations, growing headcount or limited internal bandwidth.
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Contract labour compliance: what the principal employer is liable for
The single most expensive assumption in contract labour compliance is that engaging a contractor moves the obligation to the contractor. Under the CLRA, a great deal of it stays exactly where it was.
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The registers a labour inspection actually asks for
An inspection is not a test of whether you know the law. It is a test of whether the records exist, are current, and can be produced at the site on the day somebody asks.
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PF and ESIC for contract workers: who pays, who files, and what goes wrong
Deducting a contribution and remitting it are two different events. Almost every serious PF and ESI problem on contract labour lives in the gap between them.
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What is NAPS, and how can an Indian employer benefit from it?
NAPS is simple to understand and the work is in administering it. Here is the mechanism end to end, and an honest account of what running a programme actually takes.
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Apprentice or contract worker: how to decide which fits the role
They are not competing answers to one question. They are answers to two different questions, and picking the wrong one is how programmes fail.
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