EPFO Eases Compliance by Employers. It enables facility to email request letter to approve DSC or obtain e-Sign for easing the Process of EPF Compliance by Employers during Lockdown Period. to control the spread of COVID-19 pandemic, Government has announced lockdown. However, in this scenario the employers are not able to function normally and are facing problems in using their digital signatures or Aadhaar based e-sign on EPFO portal. KYC attestation, transfer claim attestation and other important tasks are being done online by the authorized persons of employers using their Digital Signatures (DSC) or Aadhar based e-Signs on EPFO portal. For using DSC/e-Sign, one time approval from Regional Office is required. . Many employers are facing difficulties to send the one time registration requests to the Regional Office due to lockdown. Keeping in view the above situation and to further ease the compliance procedure, it has been decided to accept such requests through email also. Employer can send the scanned copy of duly signed request letter through mail to the concerned Regional Office. Official email addresses of the Regional Offices are available on the PF Website. For e.g. RO Thane Norths’ official email address is ro.thanenorth@epfindia.gov.in Further, such establishments, whose authorized officers have approved digital signatures but are not able to locate the dongle, can login to the employer portal and register their e-sign through the link for registration of already registered authorized signatories. If their name against the approved digital signature is same as that in their Aadhar, the registration of e-sign will not require any further approval. Other authorized signatories can register their e-signs and send the request letters approved by the employers and seek approval of Regional Office Thane North at above email address. This facility will provide relief to the employers and EPF members badly affected by the Pandemic. Please visit our site: www.emkayconsultany.in