EPFO Unveils Employees’ Enrolment Scheme 2025 to Promote Transparency and Regularisation
The Ministry of Labour and Employment recently issued a press release on November 1 regarding the launch of EPFO’s Employees’ Enrolment Scheme-2025.
Union Minister for Labour and Employment and Youth Affairs and Sports, Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya, on November 1, 2025 at the 73rd Foundation Day celebrations of the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) in New Delhi, introduced the Employees’ Enrolment Scheme-2025.
What is Employees’ Enrolment Scheme 2025?
The Employees’ Enrolment Scheme 2025 is a new initiative by the Government of India to help more workers get social security benefits.
It gives employers a special chance to register employees who were not added to the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) between July 1, 2017, and October 31, 2025.
Through this scheme, companies can voluntarily fix past mistakes and make sure all eligible employees are properly covered under the EPF Act, 1952.
Objective of EPFO
- It aims to encourage transparency.
- Ensure universal EPF inclusion.
- It simplifies the process of past regularisation.
Under this new scheme, all employers, whether already covered under EPF or not, can now declare any employee who joined between 1 July 2017 and 31 October 2025 on the EPFO portal.
For these employees, The employee’s EPF share (their contribution) will be waived if it was not deducted earlier. The employer only needs to pay their own EPF share, interest (as per Section 7Q), administrative charges, and a one-time penalty of Rs. 100 per establishment (this covers all three EPF schemes).
Even if an establishment already has an ongoing EPFO inquiry (under Section 7A, Para 26B, or Para 8 of EPS-1995), it can still benefit from this scheme; the damages will still be limited to Rs. 100. The EPFO will not take any action on its own against such employers for past delays.
This scheme gives employers a simple and low-cost way to fix missed EPF contributions from past years and helps bring more workers under social security coverage, supporting the goal of “Social Security for All”.
Note: This scheme will remain open for six months (from November 1, 2025 to April 30, 2026).
