General Conditions for Work from Home by employees of SEZ units
THE Department of Commerce has laid down the General Conditions for Work from Home by employees of SEZ units:
a) The Person should be a regular employee of the SEZ unit and should be authorized by the SEZ unit {issued Identity cards as per Rule 70(2) of SEZ Rules, 2006} to undertake the work pertaining to that unit.
b) The work to be performed by the employee permitted to work from home should be as per the services approved for the SEZ unit, and the work is related to a project of the SEZ unit.
c) For the purpose of work from home, SEZ unit should provide laptop/desktop and secured connectivity (for e.g VPN, VDI etc) to establish a connection between the employee and work related to the project of the SEZ unit.
d) Ensure export revenue of the resultant products/services should be accounted for by the SEZ unit to which the employee is tagged and at no given point should work from home involve the export of services from outside the SEZ unit.
e) Once the employee ceases to be part of the project of SEZ unit, the employee shall be untagged from the respective SEZ unit and the unit shall surrender the I-Card (form-K) to Specified Officer as per rule 70 (2) of SEZ Rules 2006.