Maharashtra Labour Welfare Fund- An Important Compliance – Hemant Deshpande

Maharashtra Labour Welfare Act, 1953 is an act to provide for the constitution of a Fund, for the financing of activities to promote the welfare of labour in the state of Maharashtra for conducting such activities and for certain other purposes.

Objective: Providing welfare services for workers or worker families.

• Better sports and sports facilities
• Advance and well managed Library and Reading Rooms
• Modern educational facilities
• Organizing cultural and social events
• Employment and self-employment related programs
• Health Related Programs
• Other related services

Various Programs are conducted such as:-

1. Employment Oriented Training
2. Cultural Program
3. Literature Thematic Program
4. Academic Planning
5. Health Care Plan
6. Sports Competition
7. Board Awards
8. Board Welfare Activities

Welfare Centre- Kamgar Kalyan Kendra’s are made by the state government at various cities in Maharashtra like, Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur etc. The money so taken as a contribution from the organization, is used for the welfare of weaker section (workmen)

Salient Features:-

• Applicable in Maharashtra-For other states may have different norms
• Applicable to all companies having more than 5 employees
• Contribution to be applicable is as mentioned below:-

• Half Yearly Return is mandatorily submitted in the A1 Form with the contribution by way of online payment
• To be submitted after every six months- I.e. at the end of June and December
• Manager and above level employee is not to be covered.
• If the half yearly return is not done on time then Government may recover the interest/penalty from the employer.