Employees of IT/ ITES units of SEZ allowed to work from Home subject to conditions
REPRESENTATIONS were received by the Commerce Ministry from various stake holders seeking clarifications as to whether employees of units in IT SEZs can work on need base basis from their homes or from a place outside the SEZs .
In this regard, keeping in view the requirements of this sector, as an exception it is clarified that only employees temporarily de-capacitated and employees travelling may be permitted to work from home or from a place outside the SEZ subject to the following conditions:
a) the person should be an employee of the SEZ unit
b) the person will carry out the work related to a project of the SEZ unit
c) the resultant exports must take place only from the premises of the unit in the SEZ
SEZ Instruction No. 55, Dated: May 5, 2010