Labor Codes: Updates & Cases

The Industrial Relations Code (2020), the Occupational Safety, Health & Working Conditions Code (2020), and the Code on Social Security (2020), along with the previously passed Code on Wages (2019), not only recognizes the recent experiences of the workers but also promises to safeguard their rights. Although it is impossible to highlight all the benefits of the three codes […]

The labour ministry is holding discussions with HR heads across sectors to address concerns over the Wage Code. Issues will be addressed through Rules without altering the current structure of Codes, labour and employment minister Bhupender Yadav told ET’s Yogima Seth Sharma and Deepshikha Sikarwar in an interview. Edited excerpts: There is a lot of speculation on the

India is slowly edging towards a new era in labour and employment law. According to a Labour Code survey report launched by the Karnataka Employers’ Association (KEA) and boutique employment law consulting firm BCP Associates, 34.9% of companies in India are in a high state of proactiveness to implement new Labour Codes while 18.6% of

Labour Minister Bhupender Yadav told the Rajya Sabha that the Centre was “pursuing with remaining State governments” to pre-publish rules under the four labour codes as between 13 and 24 States had already done so. To a question by MP Sushil Kumar Modi, Mr. Yadav said the Government had notified the four codes — the

The central government is pursuing with the state governments to frame the Rules under all four Labour Codes, the minister of state for labour and employment Rameswar Teli said on Monday in response to a question in the Lok Sabha. The Code on Social Security, 2020, provides for social security benefits for all workers including in unorganized sectors as well

After the PM’s announcement that the controversial farm laws will be repealed, central trade unions have decided to intensify their protests against the labour laws, national monetisation pipeline (NMP) and disinvestment in public sector companies. The joint committee of 10 central trade unions have also decided to call a two-day strike during the budget session of Parliament in February. The

There is lot of buzz in the industry on effective date for implementation of new labor laws and their impact on existing Payroll policies, procedures and systems. Central government introduced new labor laws with a aim to consolidate, rationalize, and simplify the provisions of various existing labor laws. Below legislations subsumed into The Code on

Ppetition has been filed in the Supreme Court urging the Court to direct the Central Government to extend social security benefits to “gig workers” and “platform workers” engaged by Uber, Ola Cabs, Swiggy and Zomato. It asserts that the denial of social security like pension and health insurance to “gig workers” and “platform workers” is