new labour codes

December 12, 2025 9:56 PM

Explainer: How India’s New Labour Codes Transform Safety for Workers in Hazardous Sectors

India’s four Labour Codes – the Code on Wages (2019), Industrial Relations Code (2020), Code on Social Security (2020), and Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions (OSH&WC) Code (2020) – constitute the most extensive labour reform undertaken since Independence. Replacing 29 Central labour laws, the Codes streamline compliance, strengthen worker protections, and modernise regulation by introducing a unified and technology-enabled governance system. For India’s hazardous i...

December 9, 2025 5:32 PM

What India’s new labour codes mean for gig and platform workers

India’s rapidly expanding gig and platform workforce has become a key driver of the country’s digital economy, powered by a young labour pool, rising smartphone penetration and fast-paced urbanisation. For years, this segment operated outside formal labour structures — flexible and in high demand, but largely unprotected. That changed on November 21, 2025, when the government implemented four new Labour Codes — the Code on Wages (2019), the Industrial Relations Code (2020), the Code on S...

November 27, 2025 3:04 PM

New Labour Codes Expand Protections and Flexibility for Women Workers

India has implemented a new set of Labour Codes aimed at strengthening protections and improving welfare for workers across sectors. The Centre announced on Friday that the four Labour Codes—the Code on Wages (2019), Industrial Relations Code (2020), Code on Social Security (2020), and Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions (OSHWC) Code (2020)—will replace 29 existing central labour laws to streamline and modernise labour regulation. A key focus of the reforms is increasing wom...