Offences and Penalties

An employer in Belapur deducts provident fund from his staff’s salaries every month and pockets the money. Another refuses to show an inspector the wage register. A third sacks a woman employee because she is pregnant. Are these the same kind of wrong, and does the law punish them equally? Chapter XII of the Code on Social Security, 2020 sorts such conduct into a graded scale: some lapses carry a fine only, some carry jail, and repeat offenders face more.

In two minutes

Section 133 lists seventeen offences and sorts their punishment into four bands; s.134 raises the punishment for a repeat offence; s.135 fixes responsibility on companies and their officers; s.136 controls who may prosecute and which court may try; s.137 gives a chance to comply first; s.138 allows compounding.

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