The New Labour Codes: What Changes and What Remains?
The Parliament recently passed three major Bills related to Labour Laws namely; The Code on Industrial Relations 2020, The Code on Social Security 2020, and The Code on Occupational Safety, Health and Working Condition 2020. The Code on Wages 2019 was enacted last year and the Rule (Central) under the same has been implemented from July 2020. The Rules for the same is pending from the respective State governments. The Central Government intends to bring the new codes to amalgamate and combine various labour laws to help monitor compliances. Majority of the existing provisions of the Acts have been retained in these new codes except for a few changes such as the definition of ‘Industry’ and ‘Employee’ and so on.