New labour codes in India - An Introduction

Provide an overview of the Code on wages, including definitions of wages, minimum wages, overtime, bonuses, and payment rules, with central and state responsibilities and floor wage concepts.

The code defines wages as remuneration including basic pay, dearness allowance, retaining allowance, and allowances, excluding bonuses, house rent, pensions, travel, and gratuity, with a shift to 50 percent remuneration.

Explore the challenges in the code on wages, including urban-rural reclassification, data gaps, wage payment requirements, penalties, and potential compliance simplifications.

Explore the code on social security, consolidating eight labor laws to extend protection to organized and unorganized workers, including gig and platform workers, with simplified compliance.

Explore definitions of gig workers, platform workers, employees, unorganized sector and aggregators under the Social Security code, and understand how these concepts shape access to social protection.

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Explore statutory compliance under the social security code, including record-keeping, wages, hours, leave, overtime, and notices, plus social security measures like provident fund, gratuity, employer state insurance, and maternity benefits.

The social security code expands coverage to gig and unorganized workers, requires Aadhaar-based registration, and outlines provident fund, gratuity, employee state insurance, and maternity benefits funded by governments and aggregators.

Discover how the OSHW code unifies India's labor laws, applying to factories, industry, construction, and more, with employer duties, contract labor, licenses, safety boards, and annual medical checks.

Explore key provisions of the new labour codes: mandatory annual health checks, employment letters, overtime at double rate, welfare facilities for workers and interstate migrant workers, and single return filing.

Explores the code on industrial relations, which consolidates trade unions, employment conditions, and dispute settlement, detailing registration, grievance procedures, retrenchment, and compensation for transfers.

Explore how the industrial relations code consolidates three laws into a single framework, defining industry, employer, worker, trade unions, retrenchment, and strike, and its HR impact.

Explore the provisions and requirements under India's new labor codes, including work and grievance committees, retrenchment notices, changes in conditions of service, wage and provident fund rules, and union recognition.

Discusses the four new labor codes—wages, social security, safety and health, and industrial relations—and their impact on universal minimum wage, overtime, gig workers, platform workers, and simplified compliance.