Beedi Rollers Engaged Through Intermediaries Are Employees and Eligible for Provident Fund Benefits: Madras High Court

The Madras High Court has held that beedi rollers engaged through an intermediary agency are still employees under the Employees Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952. Justice K Surender refused to interfere with the order passed by the Regional Provident Fund Commissioner and confirmed that the beedi rollers were liable to be enrolled as provident fund members. The Court made it clear that the Act is a welfare legislation…