Published on : 05 Nov 2025, 10:00 am 3 min read

The Delhi High Court recently upheld the validity of the 2008 and 2010 notifications that require non-excluded international workers employed in India to mandatorily enrol in the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF), dismissing writ petitions by SpiceJet and LG Electronics [SpiceJet v. Union of India].

A Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela held that the Central government was empowered to extend the EPF Scheme, 1952, to foreign nationals and that the classification between Indian and foreign workers was constitutionally permissible.

“ We have already held above that there is no legal infirmity in the said notifications ,” the Court said while recording its conclusions.

The first notif

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