For Mohali
HR for startups and tech teams in Mohali
Small product teams grow faster than their paperwork does. Offrd covers offer letters, attendance and payroll plainly, and there is no training week or heavy install behind it.
Small product teams grow faster than their paperwork does. Offrd covers offer letters, attendance and payroll plainly, and there is no training week or heavy install behind it.
Two layers apply to an employer in Mohali. The local layer comes from Punjab and from Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar district. The central layer is the same everywhere in India.
Confirm this before you rely on it. Any of this can change on a notification you will not see. Verify the office with the department, and take advice from your chartered accountant or labour law adviser on what actually applies to you. This is general information, not legal or tax advice. Offrd is not affiliated with any office named here and does not act for them. These details were verified on 12 September 2026. Send anything that looks wrong to service@offrd.co.
Mohali's reputation as an emerging IT hub of northern India appears in the district's own profile as a bare narrative claim, with no unit count or employment figure behind it, its actually documented economy runs through auto and precision engineering instead.
Among 57 named large enterprises, including Swaraj Tractor and Bhushan Power and Steel, employing 35,272 workers combined.
Rs 100 crore turnover and Rs 20 crore in exports, employing 2,000, focused on auto precision parts.
Rs 100 crore turnover and Rs 5 crore in exports, employing 1,500, centred on bathroom fittings.
35,689 workers, spread across eight named industrial areas including Derabassi and Phase VIII.
MSME and Udyam registration for the district.
Shops and establishment registration and labour compliance.
Punjab Labour DeptGST and commercial tax registration for employers.
Punjab Excise and TaxationManages the district's numbered industrial area estates.
Confirm this before you rely on it. Figures come from the district's profile current to 2010-11 and are dated. The document's claim that the area is emerging as a major IT hub of northern India carries no supporting unit count, turnover or employment figure, so it is presented here as stated reputation only. Office addresses and contact details can change on a notification you will not see. Verify the office and its current jurisdiction before you act on it, and take advice from your chartered accountant or labour law adviser. None of this is legal or tax advice. Offrd has no connection to the offices named and does not represent them. Checked 12 September 2026. Spot something out of date? Tell us at service@offrd.co.
Registration under that state Shops and Establishments Act. A different leave entitlement and carry forward cap. Possibly professional tax where the home state had none, or none where the home state had it. Possibly a labour welfare fund contribution on a different cycle. Different minimum wage notifications.
Provident fund, employee state insurance, gratuity, bonus and income tax do not change, because those are central. Knowing which half of the list moves is most of the work.
A return listing every covered employee, their wages for the month, their contribution and the employer share, filed with the fund office along with the payment. Days of loss of pay change the wage figure, so attendance for the month has to be settled before the return can be prepared.
Offrd produces the payroll and payslip records that the return is built from, including the basic and dearness allowance base for each employee. Filing itself is done on the fund portal.
For a covered employee, the deduction appears as its own line at 0.75 percent of gross wages for the month. The employer 3.25 percent does not appear as a deduction because the employee does not pay it, but it belongs in the cost of employment.
Where a month carries loss of pay, gross wages fall and the contribution falls with them. Attendance therefore has to be final before contributions are worked out, which is the same constraint that governs provident fund.
It depends on two things: how many people are employed, and what the state notification says for establishments that are not factories. The Act covers factories with ten or more people in the first instance, and state governments extended it to shops, hotels and similar establishments by notification. Because that extension is a state decision, the headcount trigger varies.
Where it does apply, the employee half is a payslip deduction and the employer half is a cost above salary. Both are calculated on gross wages, not on basic pay, which is where the arithmetic differs from provident fund.
Mohali sits in Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar. Labour offices are appointed district by district, so that is the line that decides who inspects you.
Department of Excise and Taxation, Punjab (Taxation Commissionerate) - district office for Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar (S.A.S. Nagar). Under the SOP notified 20 July 2025 a fresh professional-tax registration is marked by the Assistant Commissioner of State Tax (District).
Generally yes, under the Act of the state where it is located, and often per establishment rather than per company. The window after starting business is set by the state, and it is commonly around thirty days.
Joining files through to exit papers, with people data kept in order and the compliance side kept straight.
A tidy offer out in under two minutes, already carrying the clauses Punjab employers are expected to use.
Joining documents, KYC and forms come in online, so nobody chases a new hire for scans.
Check in by QR or by location, which suits a hybrid week. The weekly off, the approval and the report all come with it.
A salary breakup comes out with provident fund and insurance amounts settled. Share it or save it in one click.
Every probation end date is on one screen, and the confirmation letter prints when that date comes up.
The relieving letter and the experience letter are filed with everything else, so a handover does not stall.
Mark attendance and manage leave from anywhere.
Keep documents and letters consistent as teams grow.
Your people data is protected and backed up.
A day is usually enough to be running, and no consultant has to be paid.
Provident fund, employee state insurance and the state professional tax are dealt with inside the product.
A phone covers marking in, opening a payslip and asking for leave, which matters on a hybrid week.
Employee records are protected and backed up rather than left sitting in a shared drive.
No card to hand over. Minutes, not days, to get going.
Offrd handles the calculation and documents. These are the government offices for registration, inspections, and escalations.