Labour codes part of neo-liberal project to perpetuate inequality, says economist
2 months, 1 week ago

Labour codes part of neo-liberal project to perpetuate inequality, says economist

The Hindu  

The four labour codes launched by the Union government are part of a neo-liberal project to transfer wealth and resources from one class of society to another, perpetuating inequality and private profiteering, economist R. Ramakumar has said. He was delivering the keynote address on the changing labour laws at an event to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Kerala Circle of the State Bank Staff Union, an organisation representing the employees of the State Bank of India, here on Saturday. Mr. Ramakumar said that the Centre launched the labour codes claiming that the 29 erstwhile labour laws were “being rationalised”. Mr. Ramakumar said that creating “flexible labour conditions” was the key objective of the codes.

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Labour to strengthen workers’ rights, women employee safety in focus: Economic Survey
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Labour to strengthen workers’ rights, women employee safety in focus: Economic Survey

Live Mint  

The Economic Survey 2024-25 on Friday highlights the significance of the four labour codes enacted by Parliament in strengthening workers' rights. These codes, namely the Code on Wages, 2019, the Code on Social Security, 2020, the Industrial Relations Code, 2020, and the Occupational Safety, Health, and Working Conditions Code, 2020, will play a vital role in enhancing workers' rights. Among …

10 trade unions threaten to call a general strike if Centre notifies new labour codes
2 months, 2 weeks ago

10 trade unions threaten to call a general strike if Centre notifies new labour codes

The Hindu  

A platform of 10 central trade unions from the Opposition camp has warned the Centre that it will call a general strike if the Centre notifies the four labour codes. The issue of implementation of the labour codes had come up in a pre-budget meeting the CTUs had with Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. While the 10 unions asked her …

Labour reforms, social security for informal workers, transformative policies on cards in 2025
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Labour reforms, social security for informal workers, transformative policies on cards in 2025

Live Mint  

New Delhi, Dec 30 Speedy implementation of labour codes, providing social security to informal workers, especially gig and platform, and bringing transformative policies would be the government's priority in 2025 to empower all and boost the economy. The four labour codes on social security, industrial relations, wages, and Occupational Safety Health & Working Conditions were passed by Parliament. While provisions …

Centre begins efforts to implement Labour Codes
8 months, 1 week ago

Centre begins efforts to implement Labour Codes

The Hindu  

Almost a month after the swearing-in of the Narendra Modi government for the third term, the Union Labour Ministry has started efforts to implement the four Labour Codes, which were passed in Parliament in its second term in 2019 and 2020. New Union Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya and Union Labour Secretary Sumita Dawra have started meeting representatives of various trade …

Govt to hold more talks with states on labour codes
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Govt to hold more talks with states on labour codes

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi Implementing the four labour codes passed by the Modi government in its previous term is a top priority but the process could take several months because many states lacked “a full understanding” of the gamut of reforms and their scope, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday. Govt to hold more talks with states on labour …

Trade unions resolve to vote against four new labour codes
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Trade unions resolve to vote against four new labour codes

Hindustan Times  

Mumbai: A joint meeting of trade unions with over 25 lakh members in Maharashtra was held on Wednesday, on the occasion of Labour Day, passing a resolution to mobilise working-class votes against the BJP and its allies. HT Image Our main reason for disavowing the BJP is their announcement of four new labour codes and their promise to implement them …

Expanding Social Security Coverage For Informal Sector Workers To Be Focus In 2023: Labour Min
2 years, 2 months ago

Expanding Social Security Coverage For Informal Sector Workers To Be Focus In 2023: Labour Min

ABP News  

Expanding the social security coverage for unorganised workers and pursuing states to make rules for labour codes will be the key priorities for the government in 2023, as efforts continue to strengthen the country's labour market. With India set to host G-20 leaders' summit for the first time next year, the Union labour ministry will also pursue key employment-related agenda …

Labour on hit list for three decades
3 years, 6 months ago

Labour on hit list for three decades

The Hindu  

On June 30, President Ram Nath Kovind promulgated the Essential Defence Services Ordinance, 2021, which empowers the Central government to prohibit strikes in essential defence services. Permanent employment was seen as counterproductive to workers’ productivity and establishments increasingly began moving towards short-term employment contracts even in permanent forms of work and outsourcing of work, including in government. On the government …

Govt seeks to mend fences with unions to roll out labour codes
3 years, 6 months ago

Govt seeks to mend fences with unions to roll out labour codes

Live Mint  

The government is looking to resume formal negotiations with trade unions to ensure the smooth roll-out of four labour codes and other related policy steps. A senior labour ministry official said Union labour minister Bhupendra Yadav held a “courtesy” meeting with a dozen central trade unions recently. “Today, several burning issues such as that of migrant workers, labour law reforms, …

Worker, employer bodies seek changes to draft labour rules
4 years, 2 months ago

Worker, employer bodies seek changes to draft labour rules

The Hindu  

The majority of the Central trade unions on Thursday boycotted the Labour and Employment Ministry’s consultation on the draft rules for the four labour codes enacted by the government in 2019 and 2020, terming the exercise a “farce”. Ten out of the 12 Central trade unions declined to attend the meeting called by Labour Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar. The letter …

Labour Rights And Ease Of Doing Business: Concurring The Calibrations
4 years, 4 months ago

Labour Rights And Ease Of Doing Business: Concurring The Calibrations

Live Law  

India jumped to 63rd rank by 14 points in 2019 in the Ease of Doing Business Score by World Bank and has been one of the few consistent risers in the said list. With each State offering various sops to woo establishment of businesses or even migration of established industries from other States to theirs and the bull's eye set …

The new labour codes: Labour’s loss
4 years, 5 months ago

The new labour codes: Labour’s loss

The Hindu  

PARLIAMENT passed on September 23 three labour code Bills when the opposition was boycotting the monsoon session on the issue of the farm Bills. The three Bills, the Industrial Relations Code, the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, and the Social Security Code, along with the Code on Wages, 2019, amalgamate 44 labour laws. The worst feature of the …

New Labour Laws Brought by Centre are Not 'Reforms' but 'Regression', Says Aruna Roy
4 years, 5 months ago

New Labour Laws Brought by Centre are Not 'Reforms' but 'Regression', Says Aruna Roy

News 18  

Aruna Roy is one of those rare activists who has successfully straddled the multiple worlds of grassroots activism as well as policymaking. Question: The BJP-led NDA government has viewed its recently promulgated labour laws as part of its ‘reforms’ process that is aimed at simplifying legislation on labour, improving the ease of doing business, as well as protecting workers’ interest. …

Centre Notifies Three Labour Codes [Read Notifications]
4 years, 5 months ago

Centre Notifies Three Labour Codes [Read Notifications]

Live Law  

The Central Government on Tuesday notified the three Labour Codes namely: Occupational Safety, Health & Working Conditions Code, 2020 The Industrial Relations Code, 2020 The Code on Social Security, 2020 The three codes are part of the four codes that consolidate 29 central labour laws. The Occupational Safety, Health & Working Conditions Code, 2020 repeals as many as 13 central …

Govt aiming to implement all four labour codes in one go by December, says Santosh Gangwar
4 years, 5 months ago

Govt aiming to implement all four labour codes in one go by December, says Santosh Gangwar

Firstpost  

The labour ministry had circulated the draft rules on the Wage Code Bill last year but held back its finalisation and implementation New Delhi: The government is aiming to implement all the four labour codes in one go by December this year and complete the final stretch of labour sector reforms, Union minister Santosh Gangwar has said. The labour ministry …

Govt Looks to Implement 4 Amended Labour Codes by December, Says Santosh Gangwar
4 years, 5 months ago

Govt Looks to Implement 4 Amended Labour Codes by December, Says Santosh Gangwar

News 18  

New Delhi: The government is aiming to implement all the four labour codes in one go by December this year and complete the final stretch of labour sector reforms, Union minister Santosh Gangwar has said. Parliament in its just concluded session passed three labour code bills: the Industrial Relations Code, the Social Security Code, and the Occupational Safety, Health and …

Breaking down the new labour codes passed by Parliament | The Hindu In Focus podcast
4 years, 5 months ago

Breaking down the new labour codes passed by Parliament | The Hindu In Focus podcast

The Hindu  

Earlier this week, Parliament passed three new laws on social security, industrial relations and occupational safety that subsumed 25 Central labour laws. Along with the wage code that was passed in 2019 the NDA government has now merged 29 different labour laws into four codes and this is something that was badly needed because India’s labour laws are famously complicated …

Code debate: The Hindu Editorial on new labour codes
4 years, 5 months ago

Code debate: The Hindu Editorial on new labour codes

The Hindu  

Some laws are far too important and have far too much impact on the people to be passed in haste or without sufficient deliberation. The Industrial Relations Code, the Social Security Code and the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020, are an updated version of the respective Codes of 2019, which were scrutinised by a Standing Committee. The …

Parliament Clears Three Codes To Reform Indian Labour Laws [Read Bills]
4 years, 5 months ago

Parliament Clears Three Codes To Reform Indian Labour Laws [Read Bills]

Live Law  

The Rajya Sabha today passed three Labour codes namely: Occupational Safety, Health & Working Conditions Code, 2020 The Industrial Relations Code, 2020 The Code on Social Security, 2020 These Bills were introduced by Labour Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar. Inter-state migrant workers and unorganized workers Inter-state migrant workers include a person who: has been recruited by an employer or contractor for …

Parliament Passes Three Key Labour Reform Bills amid Boycott by Opposition Parties
4 years, 5 months ago

Parliament Passes Three Key Labour Reform Bills amid Boycott by Opposition Parties

News 18  

Parliament on Wednesday approved three key labour reform bills that will remove impediments for winding up of companies and allow firing of staff without government permission in firms with up to 300 workers. Amid boycott by opposition parties including Congress and Left over suspension of eight MPs, Rajya Sabha passed by voice vote the three remaining labour codes on industrial …

Rajya Sabha approves three codes subsuming 25 central labour laws
4 years, 5 months ago

Rajya Sabha approves three codes subsuming 25 central labour laws

Live Mint  

NEW DELHI: New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday approved three labour codes subsuming 25 central labour laws, effecting a major reform that has been on the table for at least 17 years. The three codes on -- social security, industrial relations and occupational safety – already cleared by the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, will now offer industries flexibility in …

Lok Sabha Passes Three Labour Codes for 'Healthy Environment to Workers' Amid Boycott by Opposition
4 years, 5 months ago

Lok Sabha Passes Three Labour Codes for 'Healthy Environment to Workers' Amid Boycott by Opposition

News 18  

The Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed three labour codes amid boycott of the House proceedings by several Opposition parties, including the Congress, in protest against the suspension of eight Rajya Sabha members. Labour Minister Santosh Gangwar said the House is witnessing a historic day as these codes would provide salary security, social security and proper environment at workplaces to 50 …

Why India’s labour is rejecting a new deal
5 years, 2 months ago

Why India’s labour is rejecting a new deal

Live Mint  

Labour reform was a big promise that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had made in the run-up to the parliamentary elections in 2014. While the corporate sector will see wage hikes of nearly 10% this year, the agricultural labour market saw a drop in real wages for the first time in recent years. Social insurance schemes, minimum wage laws, trade unions, …

Opinion | Govt needs to simplify, rationalize labour laws to make them effective
5 years, 5 months ago

Opinion | Govt needs to simplify, rationalize labour laws to make them effective

Live Mint  

India has 44 central, 387 state labour laws, 67 central and 1,333 state labour filings and 674 central and 26,484 labour compliances. Upto 45% wage confiscation due to mandatory social security deductions has led to a large section of the workforce choosing to be informal. To begin with, it subsumes Payment of Gratuity Act, Maternity Benefit Act, Employee Compensation Act, …

Tread with caution: on labour laws
5 years, 8 months ago

Tread with caution: on labour laws

The Hindu  

As part of its commitment to simplify and consolidate labour rules and laws under four codes, the Union Cabinet has cleared the Occupational, Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, a week after it approved the Code on Wages Bill. The Code on labour safety and working conditions include regular and mandatory medical examinations for workers, issuing of appointment letters, and …

Worker safety code Bill gets Cabinet approval
5 years, 8 months ago

Worker safety code Bill gets Cabinet approval

The Hindu  

A Bill that seeks to merge 13 labour laws into one code on occupational safety, health and working conditions that would apply to all establishments with 10 or more workers was approved by the Union Cabinet on Wednesday, paving the way for its introduction in Parliament. The Code on Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Bill, 2019, which would impact …

Three Labour Codes under different stages of formulation: Government
5 years, 8 months ago

Three Labour Codes under different stages of formulation: Government

India TV News  

The government Monday said four Labour Codes have been drafted after exhaustive consultations with various stakeholders and three of them are at different stages of formulation. The Code on Industrial Relations, The Code on Occupational Safety, Health & Working Conditions, and the Code on Social Security are at different stages of formulation, Minister of State for Labour and Employment Santosh …

‘Bill to simplify labour laws coming’
8 years ago

‘Bill to simplify labour laws coming’

The Hindu  

The Central government, which is amalgamating labour laws into four major codes, will introduce a bill in the next Parliament session to introduce two of these codes, Minister of State for Labour and Employment Bandaru Dattatreya said here on Friday. After a meeting with members of textile industry associations at Southern India Mills’ Association, the Minister told medipersons that the …

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