The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has launched a new campaign called Employees’ Enrolment Campaign (EEC, 2026). Under this campaign, eligible salaried employees who were left out by their employers from enrolling in the EPF scheme can now be enrolled in the EPF scheme if certain conditions are satisfied.
There are two main conditions for eligible salaried employees:
Date of joining and employment conditions The company must agree to cover their share of the employee’s EPF contribution with interest as specified. So if you find yourself in this situation, make sure to ask your employer to participate in the EEC campaign and get you enrolled in the EPF. This scheme won’t cost employees anything since the EPFO has waived off employee’s contribution criteria for the period they missed out. However, employers are still responsible for paying the employer contribution plus interest, if they wish to enrol these overlooked employees in the EPF scheme.
As reported by All India Radio, the Ministry of Labour and Employment has announced that EEC 2026 will stay open until 31st October of this year.
This article discusses as well as the recognised provident fund (RPF) employees.
Which employees are eligible for this campaign? Sonakshi Das, Partner at JSA Advocates & Solicitors, explained to ET Wealth Online that the EEC 2026 campaign is intended to cover employees who were required to be covered under the Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 (EPF Act) between April 1, 2009 to 31 March 2026, but were not enrolled by their employers despite being eligible for coverage.
EEC 2026 however, does not apply to individuals who were not required to be enrolled under the EPF Act, such as ‘excluded employees’ under the Employees’ Provident Funds Scheme, 1952.
Das also says that EEC 2026 does not expand the scope of EPF Act coverage or create any new category of eligible employees. Hence, only those employees who were otherwise eligible under the EPF Act during the specified period can be covered.
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What do employers need to do to enroll their employees for EPF? Under the EPF scheme, employees and employers both contribute a specified percentage of salary for the EPF fund and the government announces a particular rate of interest for this fund.
Under the EEC 2026, in the cases where the employees’ share of provident fund contributions were not deducted from their salary for the relevant p
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