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There are various laws affecting salary payment to the employees, the
labour welfare act, Payment of Salaries and Wages act, the Minimum
Wages act etc. Business policy says, Give and take, Give to take.
Any employer for the work taken from the employee has to pay some
money in return to the employee. There are some rules affecting the
payment of salary as told. If we look into few of them, Employee is to
be given few components of salary that are Basic, DA, and HRA which
comes under the minimum wages act.
There are some rules affecting the same and to certain class of people
the above components may vary. Classes are basically divided under
the minimum wages act as skilled workers/Unskilled Workers and Semi
Skilled Workers
Minimum wages rate may vary from location to location. E.g. Minimum
wages to be paid in a metro city is something more than that of a rural
area.
Structures:
Salary calculation varies from company to company. Few
companies may opt to give a component that another company
doesn’t wish to give. E.g. A company may be giving a component
called Washing allowance where as few companies doesn’t give
washing allowance at all. Deriving at the salary is a big process. An
example is given below
Basic
DA
HRA
Special allowance
Entertainment allowance
Washing Allowance
Magazine allowance
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KIT allowance, etc.,
The components can be different for a class of people. For e.g. People
in the administration may be getting an allowance that is not given to
the production dept. employees and so on.
Above all these there can be deductions like quarters rent, canteen
deduction etc.
They are
CL – Casual Leave
SL – Sick Leave
EL/PL – Earned Leave/Paid Leave
ML – Maternity leave etc.
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There are also some companies that give only one type of leave or a
combination of the above said leaves. It varies from company to
company as per the management decision.
Companies that come under Factory’s Act has to follow the following
method of granting leave.
OT
OT or overtime-extra payment is given to the employee when he works
above 8 hours (depending on the companies working hours). This can
be based on a fixed rate to each employee or can also be based on a
rate derived from salary.
Transfers/Increment
There are many chances of an employee being transferred from a
dept. to another or from a branch to another for smooth flow of work.
This may affect the salary calculation to a large extent. i.e., a person
working in a Metro city like Mumbai may be getting a Metro Allowance
of Rs. XX or a branch located in the Hill Top area may get Hill Top
Allowance etc. which was not a part of his salary when he was working
in a non-metro city or a non Hill Station place. But when he is
transferred to a metro or a hill station he is to be paid for the
allowance applicable to the location.
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As we were speaking in the earlier session about motivation, one of the
major things one has to look into is the increment given to the
employee either at regular intervals or irregular intervals. Generally
companies give increment once a year unlike software/BPO companies
that hikes the salary every now and then.
Standing instructions
There can be various standing instructions given by the employee to
the employer. It can be for a bank loan taken or an insurance payment
or a salary saving to be done by the employee. Or even company
management would have given advance to the employee.
Variable payments/deductions
There can be variable payment at any point of time, most of the
software / BPO segments are working on Variable pay very much now a
day to reduce the liability it has on the employee.
Statutory compliance
Earnings Deductions
• Bonus PF/ESI
• Gratuity PT
There are also some statutory compliance to be taken care of in salary
processing of which few are Bonus and Gratuity
Bonus:
Bonus is a component to be given to the employee by the
employer within 8 months of closing of book of accounts. A minimum
of 8.33% of Basic + DA is to be paid to the employee as per the Bonus
Act.
Bonus has its own rules that can be better explained with an example.
Assuming Bonus Gross = Basic + DA
• When Bonus Gross < 2500 then Bonus = Bonus Gross * 8.33/100
• When Bonus Gross is between 2500 and 10000 then Bonus =
2500 * 8.33/100
• When Bonus gross crosses 10000 then Bonus = 0
In many cases the above is not considered but a flat amount is given.
Though a flat amount is given to be on the safer side of non-liability
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companies preferred to pay 8.33 % as per the bonus act and rest of
the amount as Ex-gratia or an incentive.
Again if an employee has not worked for more than 30days in the
company, the organization need not pay any bonus for the employee
and if his Bonus Gross is < Rs. 100 then also Company need not pay
Bonus for the employee.
Gratuity:
Gratuity is a lump sum amount given to the employee that is generally
15days salary for every year he has worked in the company with
respect to the current salary of the employee at the time of his
retirement or exit from the company if he has completed a minimum of
5 years of service in the company.
Deductions:
1. Employee Contribution
2. Employer Contribution
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PF dept. is to be kept informed about any new employee joined to the
organization in the form of Form 5 every month
There is also a form called Form 12A that details the amount of total
contribution against the above said accounts.
There are two major forms to be submitted to the Dept. every year,
which are
Form 3A
Form 6A
Above all there are nominal administration charges to all the above
accounts that are Account 02, Account 21 and Account 22 is borne by
the employer.
There are two major Forms to be submitted by the employer every half
year that are Form 6 and Form 7 which are details of the employees
and the insurance payments for the whole half year.
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Women workers also can enjoy maternity benefits during the period of
pregnancy and delivery. ESI Dept. pays 90% of employee’s salary up to
a max of 10000/- for about 3 months.
PT – Profession Tax
Ex-gratia
Similar to bonus but paid to employees who are not eligible for bonus.
Arrears
Increase in salary is increment and any salary amount in lieu of
increment or otherwise is arrears.
Leave encashment
Exchange of unused leaves to money is leave encashment.
Salary extrapolation
Approximation of future salary based on current salary. This is used for
tax estimation (TDS). Approximation is done usually for a financial
year.
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Pay slip – record of salary for a month for a particular employee.