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New Labour Codes
New Labour Codes
The implementation of the four Labour Codes in 2025 marks a historic transformation of India’s regulatory framework, replacing 29 fragmented labour laws with a modern and streamlined system aimed at protecting and empowering workers. These comprehensive reforms, in effect from November 21, 2025, ensure better wages, enhanced social security, and greater workplace safety, particularly benefitting sectors like gig work, MSMEs, and digital media. By mandating appointment letters, expanding ESIC coverage, and extending legal protections to all forms of employment, the codes pave the way for a future-ready, resilient workforce. This overhaul aligns India’s labour ecosystem with global standards and supports...
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Biggest reform in laws since 1947 to spur jobs, investment: Labour secy
The new laws are expected to create 7.7 million additional jobs and bring down unemployment by as much as 1.3 per cent over the medium term, according to a Nov 25 report by SBI Research
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Want labour machinery to focus on defaulting firms: Labour Secretary
Labour Secretary Vandana Gurnani talks about how the ministry plans to enforce worker protections without bureaucratic drags and how states are aligning their rules with the national framework
Updated On : 27 Nov 2025 | 11:53 PM IST "New Labour Codes")
Labour codes a step in right direction, but face a long road of reforms
Reforms modernise a tangled legal regime and open new opportunities, yet overtime rules, size controls and paternalistic mandates still limit true choice for workers
Updated On : 27 Nov 2025 | 10:46 PM IST "New Labour Codes")
Explained: How will implementation of the CoSS impact Swiggy, Eternal?
According to JM Financial Institutional Securities, in a worst-case scenario, the amount payable by Eternal and Swiggy towards the fund would work out to around ₹2.1-2.5 per order
Updated On : 24 Nov 2025 | 11:38 AM IST "New Labour Codes")
Latest Updates on New Labour Codes
Statsguru: Labour pain may give birth to a new era with new Codes
The new codes, consolidating 29 laws, promise enhanced social security for gig workers and women, amid data showing rising wages but high wealth inequality
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New Labour Codes: The main challenge with Indian policy is its execution
India's new labour Codes promise sweeping reform, but weak state capacity, patchy data, and political risk may once again turn ambitious legislation into uneven, middling execution
Rules for four new Codes to be in place before April 1: Labour secy
Gurnani said that the labour ministry will republish the draft rules soon and give 45 days' time for public consultation
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Central Labour Codes won't be implemented in Kerala: Minister Sivankutty
Kerala Labour Minister V Sivankutty on Thursday made it clear that the Centre's Labour Codes would not be implemented in the state. Speaking to reporters here, Sivankutty said that the majority of the states have taken steps to implement the labour codes, but not Kerala. The minister further said that the Union Labour Ministry had called a meeting of all the states last month and there, Kerala had clearly indicated its stand that it would not implement the labour codes. When reporters asked whether the state succumbed to central pressure to prepare the draft regulations linked to the labour codes, he denied it. "If we were succumbing to central government pressure, we would have given a letter accepting the codes. we have not done that," he said. The draft regulation was notified in the state on December 14, 2021. He also asserted that the draft regulations were not prepared in secret. "It was done openly and I recommended in the file that public opinion be sought regarding it.
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States can draft labour code rules at their pace if aligned with new laws
Reportedly, the centre is in works to come up with the rules under the new codes by the first week of December, following which there will be a 45 day window for stakeholder consultations
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New labour codes: 10 big changes every employee must know
India’s new labour codes are now officially in force, reshaping how salaries, leaves, working hours, and workplace protections work across the country.
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WFH, wages, leave & safety: Key labour rule changes employees should know
Work from home recognised in services industry and minimum wages guaranteed to all workers
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From gig workers to factories: What India's new labour codes really mean
India's overhaul merges 29 labour laws into four codes, reshaping minimum wages, gig-worker social security, industrial relations, and workplace safety through unified rules and digital compliance
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Textile industry says new labour codes may boost export prospects to US, EU
India's textile sector says new labour codes will strengthen compliance with due-diligence norms and enhance global competitiveness
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Trade unions slam new labour codes as 'deceptive fraud', plan protests
While the new rules offer social security and minimum-wage benefits, they also allow companies to hire and fire workers more easily
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Labour codes will unlock far-reaching benefits for workers: Swiggy
On-demand convenience firm Swiggy Ltd on Saturday termed the newly notified labour codes as a "transformative step" that will unlock far-reaching benefits for millions of workers. While supporting the government's vision of a modern and inclusive social security net, in a regulatory filing, Swiggy said it does not anticipate any material impact from the CoSS (the Code on Social Security, 2020) on its business sustainability, cost structure, or long-term financial performance. The government on Friday notified the four labour codes, which have rationalised 29 existing labour laws. These will formalise employment, strengthen worker protection, and make the labour ecosystem simpler, safer and globally aligned. Under the new codes, 'gig work', 'platform work', and 'aggregators' have been defined for the first time. The codes stipulate that aggregators employing gig workers must contribute 1-2 per cent of annual turnover to social security, with the total contribution not exceeding 5 per
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New Labour Codes to address grievances in IT industry properly: Nasscom
The industry body said the Codes will bring clearer terms, stronger protections and uniform benefits for contract, gig and platform workers
4 labour codes take effect nationwide: Here's what's changing for workers
New labour Code 2025: New rules promise better wages, wider social security and simpler compliance effective from today.
Streamlining labour laws: Ministry forms panel to hold talks with states
Govt forms panel to align state labour laws with new labour codes, pushing reforms to boost jobs, investment and ease of doing business
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Centre nudges states to implement new labour codes, shifts reform goalpost
During 2019-20, Parliament consolidated 29 labour laws into four codes - Code on Wages; Code on Social Security; Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code; and Industrial Relations Code
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