HR & labour compliance for Mumbai businesses — on autopilot
Labour compliance for a Mumbai employer is a stack: the Code on Wages 2019 basic-pay floor, PF and ESIC, Professional Tax under Maharashtra rules, Shops & Establishments registration, leave policy, statutory bonus and clean documentation for inspections.
FastLegal encodes those rules into the payroll itself — the 50% basic floor is enforced in salary structures, statutory deductions compute automatically, HR letters generate from templates, and an append-only audit log records every change. Maharashtra levies Professional Tax up to ₹2,500/year (₹200/month, ₹300 in February) — FastLegal deducts it automatically for Mumbai employees.
What Mumbai businesses get with FastLegal
- Code on Wages 2019: 50% basic-pay floor enforced automatically in structures
- Statutory bonus (Payment of Bonus Act) eligibility tracking and grants
- Appointment, increment, promotion and experience letters generated as branded PDFs
- Leave policy engine with EL/CL/SL accruals and encashment at exit
- Append-only audit trail — DPDP-conscious record of every payroll action
Maharashtra compliance, handled
Maharashtra levies Professional Tax up to ₹2,500/year (₹200/month, ₹300 in February) — FastLegal deducts it automatically for Mumbai employees. PF and ESIC are central schemes and apply identically in Mumbai; FastLegal generates the EPFO ECR file and ESIC contribution data on every run, and the Code on Wages 2019 basic-pay floor is enforced automatically in every salary structure.
Frequently asked questions
Which labour laws apply to my Mumbai business?
At minimum: the Code on Wages 2019, EPF Act (20+ employees), ESIC (10+ employees under the wage ceiling), Maharashtra Shops & Establishments registration, and Maharashtra Professional Tax. Sector-specific rules (Factories Act, contract labour) may also apply.
What is the Code on Wages 50% rule?
Basic pay (plus DA) must be at least 50% of total remuneration. Structures that stuff CTC into allowances to shrink PF are non-compliant — FastLegal auto-bumps basic to the floor at run time.
Do you provide compliance documentation for audits in Mumbai?
Every payroll artefact — payslips, registers, PF/ESIC filings, TDS workings and the audit log — is exportable, giving inspectors a clean paper trail.
Is the Professional Tax rule for Maharashtra handled?
Maharashtra levies Professional Tax up to ₹2,500/year (₹200/month, ₹300 in February) — FastLegal deducts it automatically for Mumbai employees.
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Run your next payroll on FastLegal Payroll.
Create a workspace, bootstrap the standard Indian defaults (leave types, salary structure, holidays for two years), add your first employee, and run May payroll — all before your evening chai.
- Workspace auto-bootstrapped on signup (leave types, salary structure, holidays)
- PF / ESI / PT / TDS computed every run — every cycle
- Employee + contractor portals included, no extra tier
- No credit card needed