On November 21, 2025, India implemented a historic reform of its labor law architecture. Two significant labor codes – Industrial Relations Code (2020) and Occupational Safety, Health and Working ...

NEW DELHI, Nov 21 (Reuters) - India on Friday implemented four new labour codes, pushing ahead with the biggest overhaul of workers' laws in decades as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government says ...

Four New Labour Codes: In a landmark move aimed at modernising India’s labour governance, the government on Friday implemented the Four Labour Codes—the Code on Wages (2019), Industrial Relations Code ...

In a major overhaul of India's labour framework, the Government of India has announced four new labour codes — the Code on Wages, 2019, the Industrial Relations Code, 2020, the Code on Social Security ...

For decades, navigating India's labour law landscape has been a formidable task for businesses, characterised by a complex web of over forty central level labour laws, many of which were relics of a ...

The recently notified four labour Codes, effective from November 21, 2025, have the potential to meaningfully expand women's participation in the workforce by making employment safer, more secure and ...

India holds a 3 per cent share of global gross domestic product (GDP) and constitutes 17 per cent of the world’s population. But only 22 per cent of its 25–64-year-olds have attained upper secondary ...

MUMBAI: Lavkush Pandey is struggling to make a living – he earns barely US$200 a month delivering food and groceries for app-based platforms. On top of that, like millions of fellow gig workers in ...

India has finally rolled out labour codes, replacing 29 laws with a unified framework that standardises wages, expands social security and strengthens workplace norms While the overhaul is expected to ...

The new labour laws have raised the threshold for mandatory government approval for lay-offs from 100 to 300 workers. A report by Ambit Capital argues that this single reform could determine whether ...

NEW DELHI, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Authorities in two Indian states that are driving its economic growth are drafting tighter workplace rules and inspections to protect white collar employees following the ...