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Payroll, compliance & labour law, made practical

Guides for the people who actually run manpower and staffing businesses in India. No jargon, just what you need to stay compliant and get paid.

Compliance guide

Contract Labour Compliance in India: the complete guide

Who the Contract Labour Act applies to, registration and licensing, the registers to keep, wages, welfare and penalties, explained in plain English.

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Guides

Step-by-step payroll & compliance guides

How to register for PF and ESI, file the monthly ECR, generate Form 16, claim gratuity, get a CLRA licence and keep to the statutory compliance calendar, one clear guide at a time.

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Reference

HR & payroll glossary for India

Plain-English definitions of every term on an Indian payslip and in compliance, PF, ESI, CTC, gratuity, HRA, professional tax and more, each with how it is calculated and a worked example.

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Reference

Minimum wages in India, state by state

The latest minimum wage rates for every state and worker type, unskilled to highly-skilled, with the revision rules and the employer duties that go with them.

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More guides are published regularly. If you run a manpower, staffing, security or facility-management business, these resources are written for the compliance and payroll decisions you make every month: paying the right state minimum wage, running PF and ESI on time, keeping the muster roll and wage register audit-ready, and settling exits correctly. Start with the contract labour guide above, then use the step-by-step guides and the glossary as a working reference. For hands-on numbers, the free calculators turn any of these rules into a figure for your own salary or workforce in seconds, and the minimum-wage pages let you check the correct rate for any role in any state before you fix pay.

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