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Klok HRMS
Klok's HRMS is designed to cater to the unique needs of Indian businesses, providing a comprehensive platform to manage...
Read more →Klok: Streamline Attendance
Indian manufacturing plants face numerous challenges, including attendance and leave management. Klok's automated HR man...
Read more →The ESI mistake that turns into a shortfall notice
Eligibility is tested at the start of a contribution period, not every month. Employers who stop deducting the day wages...
Read more →The 50% rule: what the Code on Wages does to your salary structure
Excluded allowances may not exceed half of total remuneration. Structures built on a small basic and a large special all...
Read more →Why your PF ECR upload keeps failing on the 15th
The ECR is unforgiving of things that are invisible on screen: a byte-order mark, a trailing blank line, a name that doe...
Read more →Fixing Shift Attendance and Overtime for Contract Workers in Plants
Manufacturing plants running multiple shifts with contract labour face constant attendance mismatches and overtime calcu...
Read more →Leave Management
Effective leave management is crucial for Indian manufacturing settings to ensure productivity and employee satisfaction...
Read more →Why your Form 16 does not match the payslips you already issued
Every June, employees compare Form 16 against twelve payslips and find a difference. The cause is almost never the certi...
Read more →Professional tax follows the workplace, not your head office
A company registered in Maharashtra with a branch in Karnataka deducts two different amounts from two employees on ident...
Read more →The gratuity mistake that inflates your liability by half
Gratuity is computed on basic plus dearness allowance. Companies that compute it on gross provision for a liability far...
Read more →Arrears belong to two months, and payroll usually records only one
An increment effective in April and processed in July produces arrears that relate to April, May and June but are paid i...
Read more →Basic or gross: the one word in your contract that decides a notice dispute
Recovering notice shortfall on gross when the contract says basic roughly doubles the amount — and it is a dispute the e...
Read more →Statutory bonus is payable even in a year you made no profit
The 8.33% minimum under the Payment of Bonus Act does not depend on profit or allocable surplus. It is called a bonus, w...
Read more →The register written in one pen, at the end of the week
A reconstructed attendance register convinces nobody — not the employee disputing a day, not the inspector, and not the...
Read more →A shift from 22:00 to 06:00 is one day, and most systems say two
Split a night shift across two calendar days and you produce two half-days, a broken overtime calculation, and a monthly...
Read more →The comp-off that was promised on the shop floor and never recorded
A supervisor tells two technicians they will get a day off for working Sunday. Nobody records it. Eight months later it...
Read more →The loss-of-pay divisor that quietly destroys trust in payroll
Twenty-six, thirty, or the actual days in the month — any of them can be defended. Switching between them month to month...
Read more →Thirty seconds at onboarding, or two years of a stalled PF claim
A joiner who worked before already has a UAN. Not asking for it generates a second one — and splits their retirement sav...
Read more →Almost every HR dispute starts at the exit, not at the hire
Companies invest heavily in hiring and treat separation as paperwork. Then they discover that separation is where the co...
Read more →Your contractor did not pay their workers. That is now your problem.
Engaging workers through a contractor moves the employment relationship. It does not move the compliance exposure nearly...
Read more →Employee self-service fails for one reason: nobody trusts the number
Self-service removes most routine HR traffic — but only if the balance it shows is right. Publishing a number HR themsel...
Read more →Should you apply the sandwich rule to leave?
Friday off and Monday off — two days of leave, or four? The sandwich rule is legal, common, and the policy employees res...
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