HR Blog — Payroll, Labour Law & Salary Guides

Quick answer: This is the index of every HR Calcy guide on Indian payroll, labour law, income tax on salary, PF, gratuity and government and bank pay, grouped by topic. Start with the new Labour Codes guide for the 2026 rules, or go straight to the calculators if you need a number.

Everything HR Calcy publishes on Indian payroll, labour law and salary sits here, grouped by topic. These are practical guides written from the official rules: the four Labour Codes, the Income-tax Act, 2025 and the EPF and ESI schemes. Every one of them is free to read, with no sign-up. If you came looking for a tool rather than a guide, the calculators are the faster route.

Payroll and salary structure

How a salary is built in India (CTC, gross, deductions and take-home) and the Excel formats to do it repeatably.

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Labour law and the new Labour Codes

The four Codes replaced 29 older laws and change how wages, benefits and working hours are defined. These guides cover what actually changes for employers and for employees.

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Income tax and TDS on salary

Regime comparison, TDS, Form 16 and the deductions a salaried employee can actually claim, worked through with examples rather than slabs alone.

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Provident Fund and ESI

What gets deducted, on which wages, and what the employer contributes alongside it.

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Gratuity

Eligibility is where most gratuity questions start, and the four-years-and-something case is the one people get wrong most often.

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Pay Commission and government salary

Fitment factor, pay matrix and what a revision actually does to in-hand pay for central government employees.

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Bank salaries

Pay scales, stages and settlements for public sector bank staff and officers.

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Who writes these

HR Calcy is run by Vishvas Yadav, an independent HR and payroll consultant with 16+ years in Indian HR and payroll. He holds a Post Graduate Certification in HRM from XLRI Jamshedpur and SHRM, and is an ISO 9001:2015 Lead Auditor (BSI). Guides are written from the official rules and updated when those rules change.

Nothing here is legal or tax advice. Always confirm your own case with a qualified professional.