India has announced a sweeping set of labour reforms, saying it will implement four long-delayed labour codes that the government says will modernise outdated regulations and extend stronger ...

India's labour laws have been significantly reformed, consolidating 29 central laws into four new codes effective November 2025. This overhaul aims to simplify compliance, enhance worker protections, ...

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India has rolled out a sweeping revamp of its labour framework, bringing 29 separate laws under four streamlined Labour Codes. The reforms, covering various factors, from wages, industrial relations, ...

India's labour laws have undergone a major overhaul, consolidating 29 laws into four codes effective November 21, 2025. This reform aims to boost workplace safety, ease business, and formalize ...

India’s labour overhaul lets fixed-term employees claim gratuity after 1 year, not 5 India has rolled out a major overhaul of labour rules — and one of the biggest changes is a sharp cut in the ...

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 ...

Last week, India announced it would implement what many say are its most far-reaching economic reforms in decades - compressing 29 federal laws that regulated labour into four simplified codes. As a ...

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 ...

LOOK AT Indian data and strange patterns start to emerge. Why, for example, do over 95% of industrial firms employ fewer than ten workers, and many others exactly 99? Why are garment factories ...

New Labour Laws in India: Women’s employment in night shifts and certain occupations was restricted. But there is good news for women workers, women are permitted to work at night and in all types of ...