SPREE 2025

SPREE 2025 : Recently, the Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) launched SPREE 2025 (Scheme for Promotion of Registration of Employers and Employees), a focused initiative aimed at bringing unregistered establishments and workers under the social security net.

• About SPREE 2025 : First introduced in 2016 with the objective of expanding ESI coverage across India. It led to the successful registration of over 88,000 employers and 1.02 crore employees.

o Renewed SPREE 2025 will be active from 1st July to 31st December 2025, offering a one-time window for unregistered employers and workers—including contractual and temporary staff—to enroll under the Employees’ State Insurance (ESI) Act.

o Key Features : Employers who register during the scheme period will be considered covered from either the date of registration or the date they declare.

ü Employees will be covered from their respective registration dates.

ü The scheme promotes voluntary compliance over penal action to reduce litigation, promote formalization, and build better engagement and trust among stakeholders.