International Worker Under EPF Scheme 1952

The Employee's Provident Fund Organization ('EPFO'), Ministry of Labour & Employment, Govt. of India, vide its recent Circular being File No. IWU/7/(25)/2017/ Clarification reg. Para 83/5366⁷⁰ dated June 08 2017, issued to all central and regional provident fund commissioners notified a clarification regarding definition of the term "International Worker" as given in Para 83(2)(ja)(a) of Employee Provident Fund Scheme 1952 (the 'Scheme') and Para 43A(1)(viii)(a) of the Employees' Pension Scheme 1995.

The Government of India, through its initiative for the benefit of both the employers and employees, has entered into Agreement with several countries to ensure that the employees of home country who do not remit contribution in that country, get the benefit of totalization period for deciding the eligibility for pension, may get the pension in the country where they choose to live, and the employers are saved from making double social security contributions for the same