Labour Law

As India's Labour Codes move from policy intent to workplace reality, organizations are confronting a new set of industrial relations challenges-many of them less about compliance and more about confidence. In this interview, Dr. Rajbir Singh, a seasoned HR leader, shares candid insights on why...

For years, labour law sat comfortably within HR and compliance checklists. That comfort is gone. With the rollout of India's Labour Codes, decisions around wages, workforce mix, automation, and contract strategy now carry direct balance-sheet and governance implications. Dr. Amit Das, a renowned HR...

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...

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...

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.