Employees of IT/ ITES units of SEZ allowed to work from Home
By Instruction No. 55 dated 5th May, 2010, employees of IT/ ITES units in SEZs were allowed to work from home, subject to conditions that:
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
Now the Commerce Department has clarified that
a) Off-site employees of SEZ may be permitted to work from home or from place outside the SEZ subject to the same conditions as prescribed in the instruction.
b) IT units in DTA can carry out their job-work in a SEZ unit by following the procedure as laid down in Rule 43, of SEZ Rules 2006.
INSTRUCTION NO 58 Dated: May 21, 2010.