NOW DELHI WELFARE FUND IS ONLINE : https://dlabourwelfareboard.delhi.gov.in/login.php

Delhi Labour Welfare Fund Act 1953

Applicability,

Contribution,

Rules,

Benefits

The Delhi Labour Welfare Fund to ensure benefits to all labourers and workers in Delhi. The Delhi Labour Welfare Board manages and maintains this fund. The Delhi Labour Welfare Fund is an extension of the Bombay Labour Welfare Fund Act of 1953, In the year 1998, the Delhi Government took the initiative to create the Labour Welfare Fund Delhi. The main purpose of this fund is to provide the workers and their families with necessary skills to develop their social economic status. It is mandatory for all organisation having 5 or more persons to be covered under the Act and to contribute to this fund twice a year both employees and employers.

 Rules

The Delhi Labour Welfare Fund rule, 1997 regulate various aspects of the Board. These rules provide the mode of payment from the Fund to labourers, method of payment of dues, meetings of the Board, budget of the Board, maintenance of registers by employers, etc. 

Applicability

The Delhi Labour Welfare Fund Act and Rules is applicable on following organisations employing 5 or more persons’ section 2(4) of the Act: 

·         A factory established under the Factories Act, 1948 

·         An establishment under the Delhi Shops and Establishments Act, 1954

EXEMTION: -

All employees working in the above organisations are covered under the Act, except the following:

·         A person employed in a managerial capacity or supervisory capacity having wages exceeding Rs. 2,500 per month

·         Employed as an apprentice under the Apprentice Act, l961. Delhi Labour Welfare Fund Contribution

RETURN AND CONTRIBUTION

The employers and employees working in the establishments of Delhi and covered under the Act must contribute to the Fund half-yearly. They must contribute on 30th June and 31st December every year, and the returns should be filed on 15th July and 15th January with the Board. 

The amount contribution amount towards the Delhi Labour Welfare Fund is as follows:

·         Employer Contribution:  Rs.2.25

·         Employee Contribution: Rs.0.75

·         Total Contribution:         Rs.3.00

·         Late Penalty is 1% monthly of total contribution**.

RULE OF UNPAID ACCUMULTIONS

Under section 3 of the Bombay Labour Welfare Fund' as extended to NCT of Delhi, the Administrator has constituted a fund called the Labour Welfare Fund and the same unpaid dues to be deposited into LWF board

(a) all fines realized from the employees;

(b) unpaid accumulations transferred to the Fund under section 6A of the Act;

(c) any penal interest paid under section 6B of the Act;

(d) any contribution paid under section 6BB of the Act;

(e) any voluntary donations;

(f) any fund transferred under sub-section (5) of section 7;

(g) any sum borrowed under section 8;

(h) any loan, grant-in-aid or subsidy paid by the Government.

Components of the Labour Welfare Fund

Utilisation of the Fund

The Labour Welfare Fund shall be utilized on the following activities:

(a) Community and social education centres including Reading Rooms and Libraries;

(b) Community necessities;

(c) Games & sports;

(d) Excursions, tours and holiday homes;

(e) Entertainment and other forms of recreations;

(f) Home industries and subsidiary occupations for women and unemployed persons;

(g) Corporate activities of social nature;

(h) Cost of administering the Act (including the salaries, allowances, pension, provident fund and gratuity and any other fringe, benefits of the staff) appointed for the purposes of the Act; and

(i) Such other objects as would in the opinion of the State Government improve the standard of living and ameliorate the social conditions of labour.

Link of LWF ONLINE DEPOSITION

https://dlabourwelfareboard.delhi.gov.in/login.php

FORM:

FORM A IS CONTIRBUTION

FORM B IS ANNUAL RETURN

FORM C IS UNPAID DUES