(ET)
A clutch of multinational technology companies has turned to the government for help after their employees refused to link Aadhaar numbers with provident fund accounts.At a meeting with the Karnataka labour minister in Bengaluru last week, an executive of tech major HP said the company was struggling to implement the mandate of the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) to link the unique identification number with individual PF accounts.
Scores of employees were citing citing the Supreme Court judgment that said any such linking is optional, he pointed out.“Employees are refusing to give Aadhaar numbers for PF accounts. The EPFO, on the other hand, wants us to collect the numbers,” the executive said at the meeting. “We are in a fix. This is happening across companies,” he added.
