Have India's new Labour Codes weakened trade unions-or merely challenged them to reinvent themselves? Drawing on over four decades of experience in Trade union movement, labour relations and policy, Virjesh Upadhyay offers a nuanced perspective on collective bargaining, grievance redressal...
Labour Law
India's evolving labour landscape is set to redefine how organisations are preparing to manage wages, workforce structures, and compliance. In this exclusive conversation, labour law expert Alok Bhasin shares his insights on the practical implications of new labour codes, shedding light on what...
As India transitions to the four new Labour Codes, industrial relations are entering a decisive phase. While legislative consolidation promises simplification, organisations face deeper challenges around system readiness, digital mobilisation, Fixed Term Employment, and shifting power equations...
As India's four Labour Codes reshape wages, benefits and flexible hiring, Archana Balasubramanian explains what every employer must do now - and why waiting is not an option and compliance reckoning facing every Indian employer.
India’s Labour Codes promise simplicity, but their real impact is far more disruptive. Beneath the surface of consolidation and digitisation lies a fundamental shift in how value is created through people. As formalisation increases transparency and cost visibility, organisations are being pushed...
Labour Law
Shakespearean Legal Quandary Around The Definition of Wages: Should you Change your Salary Structure or Not?
The definition of “wages”, which is uniform across all four Labour Codes, is uncharacteristic of labour statutes. While the definition is pretty standard insofar as inclusion of certain components and exclusion of the others is concerned (and similar to the definitions under the...
With the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 (“OSH Code”) coming into force and subsuming the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 (“CLRA”), the legal regime on contract labour has been structurally recast. With this recast, an...
Rules have specified the unskilled, semi skilled, skilled and highly skilled categories of employees , now, the wages have to be paid according to these categories.
The Supreme Court's decision in K. Umadevi represents a fundamental shift from mechanical rule application to constitutional rights protection in maternity benefit interpretation. The Court's explicit observations establish several key principles.
GST is to be charged on cess and as such cess is not to be charged on GST. GST is to be calculated on the total amount of the cost of construction including the cess levied under the Cess Act. As a sequitur, cess cannot be levied or be payable on GST amount involved in a construction contract.
