Background
The Government of West Bengal, in alignment with the Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) reforms and the mandate of the Labour Department, has introduced the system of Single Integrated Return Filing. This initiative consolidates multiple statutory returns that establishments were earlier required to submit separately under various labour legislations.
The Single Integrated Return mechanism was launched, allowing establishments to submit one consolidated return electronically. This return covers compliance information under multiple labour laws in a unified format and at a single point of submission.
Applicability
Single integrated annual return to be furnished under:
1) Payment of Wages Act, 1936, Minimum Wages Act, 1948,
2) Factories Act, 1948,
3) Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961,
4) Payment of Bonus Act, 1965,
5) Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act, 1970
6) Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act 1979,
7) Child and Adolescent Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986,
8) Building & Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996,
9) Payment of Gratuity Act 1972,
10) Industrial Dispute Act 1947,
11) Maternity Benefit Act 1961,
12) Building and other construction workers welfare cess Act 1996 ,
13) Employee State Insurance Act 1948,
14) Plantation Labour Act 1951,
15) Boilers Act 1923,
16) The Equal Remuneration Act, 1976,
17) West Bengal Beedi and Cigar Workers (CE) Act, 1966,
18) West Bengal Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1974 and
19) West Bengal Shops & Establishments Act, 1963
Single Integrated Annual Return Filing
An employer in the state of West Bengal who opts to file a Single Integrated Annual Return can do so by submitting the same online by 30th April every year.
Penalty & Punishment
On failure of filing Annual return such penalty/ punishment/fine shall be as the appropriate authority may deems fit.
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