Foreign Employees In India Must Contribute To EPF, Rules Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has ruled that foreign employees working in India are required to mandatorily contribute to the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF), upholding the validity of two Central government notifications issued in 2008 and 2010. The Court dismissed petitions filed by SpiceJet and LG Electronics challenging the legality of these rules, which extend EPF membership to international workers employed in India. A Bench comprising 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 distinction between Indian and international workers was constitutionally valid. “We have already held above that there is no legal infirmity in the said notifications,” the Bench s