Chakan • PCMC • Bhosari • Talegaon

Simple HR for Pune industrial SMEs

Offrd is HR software for factories and workshops in Pune's industrial belt. It marks shift attendance, produces payslips with PF, ESI and Maharashtra professional tax computed, and generates the letters a plant needs, from appointment to relieving. Setup takes under two minutes and there is no implementation project.

Data hosted in India. Works on the phones supervisors already carry.

Pune industrial team using Offrd HR

Who handles this locally in Pune?

What changes at the Pune district boundary and what does not, for an employer in Pune.

District
Pune source
Labour office
Additional Labour Commissioner, Pune Division, Mumbai-Pune Road, Bungalow No. 5, Shivajinagar, Pune 411005; phone 020-25542611, fax 020-2554261(3)9, e-mail adclpune5[at]gmail[dot]com. source

Verify before you act. Office addresses, jurisdictions and rates change, sometimes without a public notice. Check the office with the department before you visit it, and put the compliance question to your chartered accountant or a labour law adviser. General information only, not legal or tax advice. Offrd is not affiliated with these offices. Last checked 12 September 2026. Corrections to service@offrd.co, please.

What goes wrong with offer letters at small companies?

Three things, over and over. The salary in the offer does not match the salary in the appointment letter. The probation clause says three months in one paragraph and six in another. And the notice period is written for the employee only, which makes it harder to enforce than a clause that binds both sides equally.

None of these show up until someone resigns or an auditor asks. By then the letter is signed. Keeping one approved clause set, and generating every letter from it, is the cheapest fix available to a company of twenty people in Maharashtra.

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What maternity leave does an employee get?

Twenty six weeks of paid leave for the first two children under the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 as amended in 2017, and twelve weeks from the third child onward. Up to eight of those weeks can be taken before the expected date of delivery. Adoptive and commissioning mothers get twelve weeks in the circumstances the Act sets out.

The Act applies to establishments with ten or more employees, and entitlement needs eighty days of work with the employer in the twelve months before the expected date of delivery.

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Frequently asked questions

Which district handles filings for Pune?

In Pune. Filings for a Pune employer go to offices appointed for that district rather than for the town.

Who collects professional tax from a Pune employer?

Maharashtra State Tax authorities under the Maharashtra State Tax on Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments Act, 1975 - the Commissioner of Profession Tax for the State and the jurisdictional Profession Tax Officer / State Tax Officer (Finance Department).

Does an offer letter need a stamp or notarisation?

No. An offer letter on company letterhead, signed by an authorised signatory and accepted in writing by the candidate, is enough. Stamping and notarisation are not required for ordinary employment offers in India.

What HR paperwork does a Pune factory need?

Every worker on the roll needs an appointment letter, attendance records, a payslip with the right deductions, and clean exit paperwork. Offrd covers each of these.

OL

Offer and appointment letters

Letters for operators, technicians, supervisors and office staff. Appointment letters are mandatory under the Labour Codes, and these go out in minutes.

AT

Shift attendance

QR check in at the gate, GPS for field staff, shift tagging, and leave approvals on the supervisor's phone. The month end export feeds payroll directly.

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Payslips with statutory deductions

EPF at 12% and 12%, ESI at 0.75% and 3.25% for wages up to ₹21,000, and Maharashtra PT, all computed per payslip. Share digitally or print.

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Worker records in one place

IDs, joining documents and letters stored against each employee. When an auditor or an OEM customer asks, you produce the file in minutes.

PR

Probation and confirmation

Timelines tracked, letters generated on schedule, for plant and office teams alike.

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Exits and settlements

Relieving letters, experience letters and full and final settlement drawn from the same salary heads as the payslip, including gratuity where due.

Does Offrd calculate Maharashtra professional tax?

Yes. Maharashtra deducts professional tax monthly, with a higher deduction in February that closes the year at ₹2,500 for employees above the salary threshold. State exemptions, including the higher threshold for women employees, are applied automatically. The deduction appears on each payslip, so the amounts your CA remits match your books without a separate reconciliation.

Attendance that survives a real shopfloor

Paper musters and biometric machines that no one exports are where factory payroll goes wrong. With the bundled Atndnz app, workers check in by QR at the gate, field and dispatch staff check in with GPS, and every entry is timestamped against a shift. A supervisor sees who is present from a phone. At month end there is nothing to tally by hand, the attendance total flows into the payslip.

What does it cost?

₹99 per document on pay per use, or ₹50 per active employee per month on subscription. New accounts start with 50 free credits and there is no setup fee. Headcount in Chakan and Talegaon units moves with production cycles, so the absence of a minimum commitment matters: you pay for the people actually on the roll that month.

The same tool works across Maharashtra's other industrial centres too. See the Maharashtra industrial HR page for Nashik, Aurangabad and Nagpur, or read this page in Marathi at pune-industrial-hr-mr.html.

Questions Pune factory owners ask

Does Offrd handle Maharashtra professional tax on factory payroll?

Yes. Maharashtra professional tax is deducted month by month on the payslip as per the state slabs, including the higher February deduction that closes the year at ₹2,500. Exemptions, such as for women employees under the state threshold, are respected.

Can supervisors mark attendance for shopfloor shifts?

Yes. Workers check in by QR code or GPS through the bundled Atndnz app, shifts are tagged, and the attendance export feeds payroll directly. Supervisors approve leave from their phone, and there are no paper musters to reconcile at month end.

Which HR records should a factory keep ready for an audit or customer visit?

Appointment letters for every worker, attendance records, payslips showing EPF, ESI and professional tax deductions, and exit paperwork for anyone who has left. Offrd stores all of these against each employee so they can be produced quickly.

What does Offrd cost for an industrial SME?

₹99 per document on pay per use, or ₹50 per active employee per month on subscription. New accounts get 50 free credits. There is no setup fee and no minimum commitment, which matters when headcount moves with production cycles.

Is this page available in Marathi?

Yes, at offrd.co/landing/local/pune-industrial-hr-mr.html. The product interface itself is in English.

Start with 50 free credits

Create the account, add your workers, and issue the first appointment letter or payslip today. No card, no commitment.