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Here's some good news for private sector employees. The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation is likely to declare interest rate of 8.5 per cent on their EPF savings for the financial year 2019-20 at one go

 

In a scathing attack on the Congress in his first interview during the election campaign season, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday wondered if the Congress found EPFO data unreliable or they thought the jobs generated due to infrastructure development under his government are no jobs at all. He said the opposition actually has no data on employment.

This move by EPFO will show the exact records of formal employment and will reassure the governments' saying "to calculate jobs on the basis of the provident fund records

According to latest Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) payroll data, net employment generation in the formal sector touched a 17-month high of 8.96 lakh in January 2019. The addition in January was 131% higher as compared with 3.87 lakh EPFO subscribers added in the year-ago month.

CII estimates that in the last four years, just the MSMEs have created anywhere between 1.39 crore and 1.45 crore net new jobs. Here’s how they arrived at the data.

The requirement of the two-month waiting period will not, however, apply in cases of female members resigning from the services of the establishment for the purpose of getting married, he said.