Type:Trigger Frequency: Quarterly

Action to be taken:
a) Examine whether employee is a workman as defined by the act
b) Determine the amount of compensation due to the worker and pay the compensation to the Commissioner as soon as possible
c) Deposit a sum of 2500 Rs with the commissioner towards funeral expenditure for the workman
d) Send a report in the prescribed form of the circumstances leading to death within 7 days to the Commissioner
e) Pay if required, an advance of not more than 3 months wages to any dependant. This compensation is recoverable from the workman

Audit Requirement:
Has compensation been duly paid under the Workman's Compensation Act to all cases of death of a workman qualifying under the act ?

Supporting Documents:
Written Confirmation of Compliance

Related Documents:
The Second Schedule - S 2(1)(n) - List Of People Included In The Definition Of Workmen   View htm  23 Kb
The Fourth Schedule - S.4 - Factors For Working Out Lump Sum Of Compensation In Case of Permanent Disablement or Death   View htm  30.9 Kb

Related Triggers:
Accident Causing Death
Death Of An Employee
Workmans Compensation Claim

Related Keywords:
Accident
Death of Employee
Fatal Accident
Workmens Compensation

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Related Sections:
Employees Compensation Act, 1923
Chapter:Employees Compensation| 3:Employers liability for compensation:
(1) If personal injury is caused to a employee by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment, his employer shall be liable to pay compensation in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter :

Provided that the employer shall not be so liable-

(a) in respect of any injury which does not result in the total or partial disablement of the employee for a period exceeding seven days ;
(b) in respect of any injury, not resulting in death or permanent total disablement, caused by an accident which is directly attributed to-
(i) the workman having been at the time therefore under the influence of drink of drugs, or
(ii) the wilful disobedience of the workman to an order expressly given, or to a rule expressly framed, for the purpose of securing the safety of workman, or
(iii) the wilful removal or disregard by the workman of any safety guard or other device which he knew to have been provided for the purpose of securing the safety of workman;

(2) If a workman employed in any employment specified in Part A of Schedule III contracts any disease specified therein as an occupational disease peculiar to that employment, or if a workman, whilst in the service of an employer in whose service he has been employed for a continuous period of not less than six months (which period shall not include a period of service under any other employer in the same kind of employment) in any employment specified in Part B of Schedule III, contracts any disease specified therein as an occupational disease peculiar to that employment, or if a workman whilst in the service of one or more employers in any employment specified in Part C of Schedule III for such continuous period as the Central Government may specify in respect of each such employment, contracts any disease specified therein as an occupational disease peculiar to that employment, the contracting of the disease shall be deemed to be an injury by accident within the meaning of the this section and, unless the contrary is proved, the accident shall be deemed to have arisen out of, and in the course of, the employment :

Provided that if it is proved-
(a) that a workman whilst in the service of one or more employers in any employment specified in Part C of Schedule III has contracted a disease specified therein as an occupational disease peculiar to that employment during a continuous period which is less than the period specified under this sub-section for that employment, and
(b) that the disease has arisen out of and in the course of the employment ; the contracting of such disease shall deemed to be an injury by accident within the meaning of this section :

Provided further that if it is proved that a employee who having served under any employer in any employment specified in Part B of Schedule III or who having served under one or more employers in any employment specified in Part C of that Schedule, for a continuous period specified under this sub-section for that employment and he has after the cessation of such service contracted any disease specified in the said Part B or the said Part C, as the case may be, as an occupational disease peculiar to the employment and that such disease arose out of the employment, the contracting of the disease shall be deemed to be an injury by accident within the meaning of this section.

(2-A) If a empoyee employed in any employment specified in Part C of schedule III contracts any occupational disease peculiar to that employment, the contracting whereof is deemed to be an injury by accident within the meaning of this section, and such employment was under more than one employer, all such employers shall be liable for the payment of the compensation in such proportion as the Commissioner may, in the circumstances, deem just.

(3) The Central government or the State Government, after giving, by notification in the Official Gazette, not less three months notice of its intention so to do, may by a like notification, add any description of employment to the employments specified in Schedule III, and shall specify in the case employments so added the diseases which shall be deemed for the purposes of this section to be occupational diseases peculiar to those employments respectively and thereupon the provisions of sub-section (2) shall apply, in the case of a notification by the Central Government, within the territories to which this Act extends or, in case of a notification by the State Government, within the State as if such diseases had been declared by this Act to be occupational diseases peculiar to those employments.

(4) Save as provided by sub-sections (2), (2-A) and (3), no compensation shall be payable to a workman in respect of any disease unless the disease is directly attributable to a specific injury by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment.

(5) Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to confer any right to compensation on a employee in respect of any injury if he has instituted in a Civil Court a suit for damages in respect of the injury against the employer or any other person ; and no suit for damages shall be maintainable by a workman in any court of law in respect of any injury-
(a) if he has instituted a claim to compensation in respect of the injury before a Commissioner ;or
(b) if an agreement has been come to between the workman and his employer providing for the payment of compensation in respect of the injury in accordance with the provisions of this Act. Employees Compensation Act, 1923
Chapter:Employees Compensation| 4:Amount of compensation:
(1) subject to the provisions of this Act, the amount of compensation shall be as follows, namely:-

(a) where death results from the injury an amount equal to fifty per cent of the monthly wages of the deceased employee multiplied by the relevant factor; or an amount of one lakh and twenty thousand rupees, whichever is more;

(b) Where permanent total disablement results from the injury an amount equal to sixty per cent of the monthly wages of the injured employee multiplied by the relevant factor; or an amount of one lakh and forty thousand rupees, whichever is more;
Provided that the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, from time to time, enhance the amount of compensation mentioned in Clause (a) and (b).

Explanation 1.- For the purposes of clause (a) and clause (b), "relevant factor", in relation to a workman means the factor specified in the second column of Schedule IV against the entry in the first column of that Schedule specifying the number of years which are the same as the completed years of the age of the workman on his last birthday immediately preceding the date on which the compensation fell due ;

Explanation II.-xxxx

(c) where permanent partial disablement results from the injury
(i) in the case of an injury specified in Part II of Schedule I, such percentage of the compensation which would have been payable in the case of permanent total disablement as is specified therein as being the percentage of the loss of earning capacity caused by that injury, and
(ii)in the case of an injury not specified in Schedule I, such percentage of the compensation payable in the case of permanent total disablement as is proportionate to the loss of earning capacity (as assessed by the qualified medical practitioner) permanently caused by the injury ;

Explanation I.-Where more injures than one are caused by the same accident, the amount of compensation payable under this head shall be aggregated but not so in any case as to exceed the amount which would have been payable if permanent total disablement had resulted from the injuries;

Explanation II.- In assessing the loss of earning capacity for the purposes of sub-clause (ii), the qualified medical practitioner shall have due regard to the percentages of loss of earning capacity in relation to different injuries specified in Schedule I;

(d) Where temporary disablement, whether total or partial results from the injury
a half-monthly payment of the sum equivalent to twenty-five per cent of monthly wages of the employee, to be paid in accordance with the provisions of sub- section (2).

(1-A) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), while fixing the amount of compensation payable to a workman in respect of an accident occurred outside India, the Commissioner shall take into account the amount of compensation, if any, awarded to such workman in accordance with the law of the country in which the accident occurred and shall reduce the amount fixed by him by the amount compensation awarded to the workman in accordance with the law of that country;

(1-B) The Central Government may, by notification if the Official Gazette, specify, for the purpose of sub-section (1) the following amount as monthly wages with effect from the date of publication of the notification in the Official Gazette, namely - eight thousand rupees.

(2) The half-monthly payment referred to in clause (d) of sub-section (1) shall be payable on the sixteenth day-
(i) from the date if disablement where such disablement lasts for a period of twenty-eight days or more, or
(ii) after the expiry of a waiting period of three days from the date of disablement where such disablement lasts for a period of less than twenty-eight days ; and thereafter half-monthly during the disablement or during a period of five years, whichever period is shorter :

Provided that-
(a) there shall be deducted from any lump sum or half-monthly payments to which the workman is entitled the amount of any payment or allowance which the workman has received from the employer by way of compensation during the period of disablement prior to the receipt of such lump sum or of the first half-monthly payment, as the case may be; and
(b) no half-monthly payment shall in any case exceed the amount, if any by which half the amount of the monthly wages of the employee before the accident exceeds half the amount of such wages which he is earning after the accident.

Explanation.- Any payment or allowance which the workman has received from the employer towards his medical treatment shall not be deemed to be a payment or allowance received by him by way of compensation within the meaning of clause (a) of the proviso.

(2-A) The employee shall be reimbursed the actual medical expenditure incurred by him for treatment of injuries caused during the course of employment.

(3) On the ceasing of the disablement before the date on which any half-monthly payment falls due there shall be payable in respect of that half-month a sum proportionate to the duration of the disablement in that half-month.

(4) If the injury of the employee results in his death, the employer shall, in addition to the compensation under sub-section (1), deposit with the Commissioner a sum of not less than five thousand rupees for payment of the same to the eldest surviving dependant of the employee towards the expenditure of the funeral of such workman or where the employee did not have a dependant or was not living with his dependant at the time of his death to the person who actually incurred such expenditure.
Provided that the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, from time to time, enhance the amount specified in this sub-section.
Employees Compensation Act, 1923
Chapter:Employees Compensation| 4-A:Compensation to be paid when due and penalty for default:
(1) Compensation under Section 4 shall be paid as soon as it falls due.

(2) In cases where the employer dose not accept the liability for compensation to the extent claimed, he shall be bound to make provisional payment based on the extent of liability which he accepts, and, such payment shall be deposited with the Commissioner or made to the employee, as the case may be, without prejudice to the right of the employee to make any further claim.

(3) Where any employer is in default in paying the compensation due under this Act within one month from the date it fell due, the Commissioner shall-

(a) direct that the employer shall, in addition to the amount of the arrears, pay simple interest thereon at the rate of twelve per cent per annum or at such higher rate not exceeding the maximum of the lending rates of any scheduled bank as may be specified by the Central Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, on the amount due ; and
(b) if, in his opinion, there is no justification for the delay, direct that the employer shall, in addition to the amount of the arrears and interest thereon, pay a further sum not exceeding fifty per cent of such amount by way of penalty :

Provided that an order for the payment of penalty shall not be passed under clause (b) without giving a reasonable opportunity to the employer to show cause why it should not be passed.

Explanation.- For the purposes of this sub-section, "scheduled bank" means a bank for the time being included in the Second Schedule to the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 (2 of 1934).

(3-A) The interest and the penalty payable under sub-section (3) shall be paid to the employee or his dependant, as the case may be Employees Compensation Act, 1923
Chapter:Employees Compensation| 5:Method of calculating wages:
In this Act and for the purposes thereof the expression "monthly wages" means the amount of wages deemed to be payable for a months service (whether the wages are payable by the month or by whatever other period or at piece rates), and calculated as follows, namely-
(a) where the employee has, during a continuous period of not less than twelve months immediately preceding the accident, been in the service of the employer who is liable to pay compensation, the monthly wages of the workman shall be one-twelfth of the total wages which have fallen due for payment to him by the employer in the last twelve months of that period;
(b) where the whole of the continuous period of service immediately preceding the accident during which the workman was in the service of the employer who is liable to pay the compensation was less than one month, the monthly wages of the employee shall be the average monthly amount which, during the twelve months immediately preceding the accident , was being earned by a employee employed on the same by the same employer, or, if there was no workman employed, by a workman employed on similar work in the same locality;
(c) in other cases including cases in which it is not possible for want of necessary information to calculate the monthly wages under clause (b), the monthly wages shall be thirty times the total wages earned in respect of the last continuous period of service immediately preceding the accident from the employer who is liable to pay compensation, divided by the number of days comprising such period.

Explanation.- A period of service shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to be continuous which has not been interrupted by a period of absence from work exceeding fourteen days. Employees Compensation Act, 1923
Chapter:Employees Compensation| 10-B:Reports of fatal accidents and serious bodily injuries:
(1) Where, by any law for the time being in force, notice is required to be given to any authority, by or on behalf of an employer, of any accident occurring on his premises which results in death or serious bodily injury, the person required to give the notice shall within seven days of the death or serious bodily injury, send a report to the Commissioner giving the circumstances attending the death or serious bodily injury :

Provided that where the State Government has so prescribed the person required to give the notice may instead of sending such report to the Commissioner send it to the authority to whom he is required to give the notice.

Explanation.- "Serious bodily injury" means an injury which involves, or in all probability will involve, the permanent loss of the use of, or permanent injury to, any limb, or the permanent loss of or injury to the sight or hearing, or the fracture of any limb, or the enforced absence of the injured person from work for a period exceeding twenty days.

(2) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, extend the provisions of sub-section (1) to any class of premises other than those coming within the scope of that sub-section, and may, by such notification, specify the persons who shall send the report to the Commissioner.

(3) Nothing in this section shall apply to the factories to which the Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948 (34 of 1941), applies.