Vendor & Contractor Compliance

Your vendors follow the law. We make sure of it, every month.

Gupta Consultant sits between you and every contractor on your rolls — chasing licences, checking wage registers, reconciling PF and ESI challans, and standing in the room when the inspector walks in. You run the business; we keep the paperwork honest.

25+ yrsadvising employers on labour law
1,200+contractors audited to date
18 stateswhere our teams operate
Compliance manager reviewing a contractor's records with a client at Gupta Consultant
Built for: Manufacturing plantsConstruction & project sitesIT / ITES campusesRetail & hospitality chainsHealthcare facilities
The Cost Of Looking Away

What actually goes wrong when vendor compliance slips

None of this shows up on a balance sheet until it does — usually as a labour inspector's notice, or a resignation letter from a contract worker who was never paid what the register said.

01Contract workers get treated in law as your direct employees, with full back-pay liability.
02Unpaid PF, ESI and LWF dues land on your desk, with interest and penalty stacked on top.
03Labour licences and establishment registrations get suspended mid-project.
04Site work stalls while a labour dispute is heard — deadlines don't wait for hearings.
05Directors and plant heads face personal prosecution under the CLRA and Factories Act.
06Repeat inspections follow once an establishment is flagged — each one costs a day.
What We Do For You

Six things we take off your plate

Every establishment is different — a two-shift factory, a fifteen-storey construction site, and a back-office in Gurugram all carry different licence obligations. We tailor the plan; here's the shape of it.

Establishment-wise

Compliance mapped to your site type

Factory floor, greenfield project, or a leased office — the applicable labour laws differ, and so does our checklist.

CLRA

Contract labour, properly licensed

We keep gate registers, principal-employer certificates and CLRA licences current across every worksite you run.

Registers

Statutory registers, always current

Wage registers, muster rolls, overtime and fine registers — updated on the cycle each law actually requires.

PF · ESI

Returns filed, contributions reconciled

Every contractor's PF and ESI challans are checked against actual wages paid, not just the number on the invoice.

Wages

Minimum wage & benefit verification

We cross-check what the register says a worker earned against the state's applicable minimum wage notification.

BOCW · ISMA

Construction & accident-related compliance

Cess assessments, NOC applications and injury-compensation formalities for your construction workforce.

Why It's Worth Doing Properly

Four reasons employers keep us on retainer

I.

Legal safety

You stay on the right side of every labour statute that touches your contract workforce.

II.

Risk control

Exposure to arrears, penalties and prosecution is caught before an inspector finds it first.

III.

Cost discipline

No surprise penalties, no stalled projects, no scrambling before an audit deadline.

IV.

Fair treatment

Contract workers actually receive the wages and benefits the law promises them.

Go Digital

Watch every register update in real time

Our in-house platforms — SaralComply for your own establishment and Comply Vendor for your contractor base — turn a folder of paper into a dashboard you can actually query.

  • Track every open compliance task against its due date
  • Real-time dashboards instead of a monthly PDF report
  • Flags the moment a rule or wage notification changes
  • Digitally verified employee data behind every register
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"When the labour inspector walked into our Gurugram plant unannounced, every register Gupta Consultant maintains for us was already in order — Form V, Form XII, the works. That's the whole point of paying a retainer."

— HR Head, mid-size electronics manufacturer, Manesar
Frequently Asked

Questions employers usually ask first

It's the ongoing job of making sure every contractor supplying you labour or services follows applicable labour and safety law — registration, wages, documentation, and worker welfare — so neither you nor the contractor carries avoidable legal risk.

Most in-house teams can — until a state notification changes a wage slab, or a contractor's licence lapses without anyone noticing. We track the notifications full-time so it doesn't fall on your HR calendar.

Both. We onboard your contractors onto our checklist and chase their submissions directly, while keeping you copied on anything that's overdue or at risk.

If you're on retainer, our team is reachable the same day to help your site respond, produce the requested registers, and handle the notice that typically follows.

Not sure how exposed your contractors leave you?

A 30-minute review usually tells us exactly where the gaps are.

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