Better late than never. After much dithering and deferring, India has got down to housekeeping in the area of labour laws. While the maze of labour laws has not prevented India from industrialising or attracting foreign investment, it has made entrepreneurs’ and investors’ life unnecessarily difficult. Consider this, of the 1,536 Acts that govern all […]
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New Delhi: The recent government regulation to subsume multiple labour laws into four codes is a major reform but the overall success of the labour codes would depend on how the rules are framed and implemented on the ground, says an expert. Parliament in its just-concluded session passed three labour code bills: the Industrial Relations (IR) Code, the Social Security
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All four labour codes are likely to be implemented in one go from April 1, the beginning of the next fiscal year, Labour Secretary Apurva Chandra said on Wednesday. Parliament in its just concluded session passed three labour code bills: the Industrial Relations (IR) Code, the Social Security Code, and the Occupational Safety, Health and
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The labour ministry on Wednesday said it intends to implement the new labour codes from the beginning of next fiscal. Framing of rules under the three recently-passed labour codes – on industrial relations, social security and occupational health & safety – is under process and is likely to be completed by next month. After drafting,
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The labour Codes enacted by Parliament have little to do with labour welfare; they are apparently meant to improve ‘ease of doing business’ and to make it easy for employers to hire and fire workers. PARLIAMENT passed on September 23 three labour code Bills when the opposition was boycotting the monsoon session on the issue
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The Code on Social Security 2020, which was passed in Parliament in September, and has already received presidential assent, has provided for social security for gig and platform workers along with unorganised sector workers. This is the first occasion that gig and platform workers have been defined and incorporated within the ambit of labour laws. While it is a
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An essential step to reforming workplaces is the coming of the code on social security in India. Social security is usually understood as some form of monetary support that the government provides to those who are either incapable of being employed or are inadequately employed. In the Indian context, social security has a different meaning
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Companies can now convert permanent jobs into fixed-term contracts as the union government removed safeguard provision under the new labour laws that were released last week, according to a report by Business Standard. The Industrial Relations (IR) Code, 2020, which was notified on September 29, allows companies to hire contract workers directly through fixed-term contract. Earlier, firms had to go through a contractor
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Labour ministry will soon kick-start the process of framing rules for the three labour codes passed by the Parliament recently, labour minister Santosh Gangwar said. While industry expressed its reservations over these codes, the International Labour Organisations said the success of these codes will depend on their effective implementation on the ground. The labour code on industrial relations, the code on
