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The Delhi High Court has recently ruled that persons from other nations, residing in India for work, will now have to make contribute to the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO). However, the ruling could cause confusion and hardships for expats, as per three experts that NDTV Profit spoke to.

The case involved foreign employees working in India for companies covered under the EPF Act, but whose home countries did not have a reciprocal Social Security Agreement or a bilateral economic agreement with India.

As per Alay Razvi, Managing Partner of Accord Juris, this raises the cost of employment for companies and reduces expatria

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