Labour Welfare Fund in Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh collects LWF under the Andhra Pradesh Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1987 (Rules, 1988).
Checked against the official notification on 6 Oct 2026
Maintenance of Registers by employers
(1) Every employer of an establishment shall maintain and preserve for a period of
five years.
(a) A register of wages in Form-D except in cases where a simple register is
maintained under any other law for the time being in force, and
(b) A consolidated register of unclaimed wages and fines in Form-G provided
that in respect of cases of pending before the appellate authorities such
record register shall be preserved till the cases are finally disposed of;
(2) The employer of an establishment shall by the 31st January of every yearforward
to the Welfare Commissioner a copy of the extract from the register in Form-E
pertaining to the previous year.
- Employee pays
- ₹30
- Employer pays
- ₹70
- How often
- Yearly
- Applies from
- All covered establishments
When to deduct and pay
Deduct the employee share from the salary for December.
Who is covered
All employees except those employed mainly in a managerial capacity, apprentices and part-time employees.
Work out your cost
Enter your headcount in Andhra Pradesh to see the yearly deposit.
Matters only where the state uses wage bands, a % rate or a wage limit.
Employer cost a year
₹1,750
Plus ₹750 deducted from employees. Total deposit ₹2,500.
- Frequency
- Yearly
- Per employee, each time
- ₹30 + ₹70 employer
- Per employee, a year
- ₹100
- Deduct from salary of
- December
Official sources
- AP Labour Welfare fund ACT Amendment - 2022Labour Department, Government of AP, ACT No. 27 of 2022. AN ACT FURTHER TO AMEND THE ANDHRA PRADESH LABOUR WELFARE FUND ACT, 1987., 31 Oct 2022
- ANDHRA PRADESH LABOUR WELFARE FUND ACT, 1987 ANDHRA PRADESH LABOUR Department
- THE ANDHRA PRADESH LABOUR WELFARE FUND RULES, 1988Labour Department - Andhra Pradesh
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