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Thursday, October 23, 2025
TopicLabour codes

Topic: Labour codes

Sangh affiliate Mazdoor Sangh calls on Modi govt to implement 2 of 4 labour codes without delay

Calling for immediate implementation of Wage Code and Social Security Code, BMS is opposed to clauses in Industrial Relations Code and Occupational Safety, Health & Working Conditions Code.

With Bengal, TN & Delhi yet to frame draft rules under 4 labour codes, rollout likely to take time

Union labour secretary chaired a meeting to assess states & UTs' preparedness in finalising draft rules. The 4 codes are aimed at economic reforms & welfare of unorganised sector workers.

Tamil Nadu withdraws Bill allowing 12-hour work days, CM Stalin calls it ‘brave’ move

The Bill was opposed in the state assembly by DMK allies like the Communist Party of India, CPI (Marxist), Congress, the MDMK and VCK as well as the Opposition.

India innovates in labour. It doesn’t need the pressure to spend huge on R&D like US, Japan

India has cheap labour while conventionally R&D-intensive countries have cheaper capital. The whole debate on R&D needs to be recast to fit the realities here.

Economic Survey says govt’s labour codes ‘in tune with market trends’. But they’ve not kicked in yet

Four labour codes, amalgamating 29 laws, were passed in 2019 & 2020. But central, state govts have yet to notify the laws that will cater to around 40 crore unorganised sector workers.

Modi govt’s e-Shram takes digital literacy as granted. Won’t help unorganised sector workers

The absence of data for the unorganised workers is not by accident but by design.

Labour codes will miss July date as states aren’t ready, govt target now 1 Oct: Gangwar

New Delhi: The implementation of the Narendra Modi government’s four labour codes is being delayed due to the tardiness on the part of the...

Labour codes for industries don’t suit digital companies. Modi govt got a window to fix it

The Modi government’s labour codes, though historic, skirt over the realities of the digital economy and seek to transpose legacy regulation onto it.

Modi govt defers implementation of 4 labour codes as states yet to finalise relevant rules

The labour ministry had envisaged implementing the four codes on industrial relations, wages, social security and occupational health safety & working conditions from 1 April 2021.

Work from home here to stay, labour ministry adds it in standing order for service sector

Standing orders are an employment contract that spell out the rules of conduct for employees in industrial establishments that have over 300 workers. 

On Camera

In Bihar, BJP is courting upper castes—a clear shift from its 2020 strategy

With two parties led by Dalit leaders now part of NDA, the BJP is hopeful of winning a large number of reserved constituencies.

Boom to bust: Haunted by Ketan Parekh saga, 117-yr-old Calcutta Stock Exchange’s future lies in limbo

CSE, one of India’s oldest bourses, is edging towards a voluntary exit. It could never recover from market manipulation scam that caused a payment crisis at exchange back in 2001. 

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.