application of payment of bonus act

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THE PAYMENT OF BONUS ACT, 1965

1. Short title, extent and application.-(1) This Act may be called the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965. (2) It extends to the whole of India3 [***]. (3). Save as otherwise provided in this Act, it shall apply to – (a) every factory; and (b) every other establishment in which twenty or more persons are employed on any day during an accounting year.

4 [Provided that the appropriate Government may, after giving not less than two months’ notice of its intention so to do, by notification in the Official Gazette, apply the provisions of this Act with effect from; such accounting year as may be specified in the notification, to any establishment or class of establishment [including an establishment being a factory within the meaning of sub-clause (ii) of clause (m) of section 2 of the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948)] employing such number of persons less than twenty as may be specified in the notification;

so, however, that the number of persons so specified shall in no case be less than ten.]

https://labour.gov.in/sites/default/files/ThePaymentofBonusAct1965_0.pdf

Check with local O/o Labor Commissioner…

Or Local Counsels/Law firms specializing in Labor matters…..

if any notification to the effect is issued...