EPFO sees marginal dip in addition of net employees in Jan

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The Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) witnessed a marginal dip of 2.6% in year-on-year addition of net employees in January at 1.48 million as against 1.52 million added in January last year...

Month-on-month comparison of the addition of formal workforce, however, shows an increase of 15.6% with December net employee addition at 1.28 million compared to 1.48 million in January...

According to the provisional payroll data released by the labour ministry on Monday, out of 1.48 million subscribers added to EPFO during the month, around 0.77 million new members have come under the ambit of EPFO for the first time.. Further, only 0.34 million members exited from the retirement fund body coverage in January, which is the lowest exit in the last four months while approximately 1.06 million members re-joined EPFO membership...

Gender-wise analysis of payroll data reflects that enrolment of net female members has been 0.28 million in January, 2023, of which around 0.19 million female members are the new joinees...

This shows that 68.61% of the net female members have come under the fold of EPFO for the first time, the ministry said.. State-wise comparison shows high month-on-month addition in Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Orissa, Delhi and Himachal Pradesh..

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