Yes.It is the Statutory responsibility of the employer to register the Factory/Establishment under the ESI Scheme within 15 days from the day of its applicability.

Employee gets full medical care during the period of his incapacity for restoration of his health and working capacity.He get financial assistance to compensate the loss of his/ her wages during the period of his abstention from work due to sickness, maternity and employment injury.Provision of Artificial Limbs, hearing aids, etc as a part of medical treatment when required.Medical care benefit is extended to his/her family members also.In case of death of insured employee due to employment injury, the spouse, widowed mother and children are entitled to Dependents benefit.

Any entity, be it a government office, public sector or private sector entity which has 10 or more employees needs to get registered under the Scheme. The application must be filed within 15 days of reaching the employee count of 10.Where the employer wishes to provide the benefits to his/her employees, he may voluntarily apply for registration.

Eligible employee needs to contribute in total 0.75% of their salary (basic+allowances).Registered Employers need to deposit 3.25% of salary paid (basic+allowances) to ESI corpus every month.