With the ministry's latest decision, such pensioners would receive their full pension after completion of 15 years
The minister also reiterated that the decision to invest in the DHFL was taken during the previous government headed by Akhilesh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party.
The top court said this while dealing with a question on whether special allowances paid by an establishment to its employees would fall within the expression "basic wages"
Dubbed as 'One Employee - One EPF account', the services is now available and can be availed to merge as many as 10 previous PF accounts under one UAN number
The ministry of labour has said that strict action will be taken against repeated defaulters