Employees State Insurance Corporation

A warehouse worker in Taloja slips on an oil patch and fractures his wrist. He cannot work for six weeks, and his family still has a rent to pay. If he is an insured person, a dedicated fund pays him part of his lost earnings and pays for his treatment. Who is insured, who pays in, what does he get, and which court hears it if the employer says he was never an employee? Chapter IV of the Code on Social Security, 2020 (ss.24-52) is the ESI scheme in statute form.

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Chapter IV makes every employee of a covered establishment an Insured Person, funds six kinds of benefit through employer and employee contributions paid to the Employees' State Insurance Corporation, and sends disputes to the Employees' Insurance Court.

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