Centre, states need to pursue labour law reforms to spur investments, job creations: SBI report
5 years, 9 months ago

Centre, states need to pursue labour law reforms to spur investments, job creations: SBI report

Firstpost  

New Delhi: The Centre and state governments need to pursue labour law reforms as these are necessary for improving investment and generating employment, said SBI in its research report ‘Ecowrap’ on Thursday. Observing that initiatives taken towards labour law reforms till date are “miniscule”, the report said that in an economy like India, which has a large workforce, it is important to improve employment and employability, streamline labour issues and develop adequate means to absorb the labour in the economy. Making a case for labour law reforms, the report said the investors look out for stability and sustainability. Stressing the importance of labour law reforms, it said that according to the latest comparable figures available with the International Labour Organization, the man-days lost in India were staggering 23.34 lakh as compared with 1.7 lakh in the UK and 7.4 lakh in the US with Russia at a low of only 10,000.

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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 …

Centre likely to roll out labour codes by early next financial year
2 months ago

Centre likely to roll out labour codes by early next financial year

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi The Centre is likely to implement the long-pending labour codes by early next financial year even if one state fails to wrap up the process of framing draft rules, as nearly all states and Union territories are done with finalising these norms, a person aware of the development said. The four labour codes passed by Parliament during 2019-20 …

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-states meet on Friday to fast-track labour codes
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Centre-states meet on Friday to fast-track labour codes

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: Union minister of state for labour, Shobha Karandlaje, will chair a consultative meeting on Friday with representatives of all southern states to quicken the implementation of the labour codes, an official said. Union minister of state for labour, Shobha Karandlaje with Union labour minister Mansukh Mandaviya This will be the first meeting to be chaired by a minister …

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 …

Unreserved, Yet Inaccessible: How Labour Laws Exclude Millions
9 months ago

Unreserved, Yet Inaccessible: How Labour Laws Exclude Millions

News 18  

I was associated with an academic institute that has multiple centres in different parts of India. But this closure underscores a broader point: West Bengal’s labour laws and overall environment have been deterrents to investing in West Bengal. After all, their combined membership hovers around 25 million, a stark contrast to India’s total labour force of approximately 480 million. While …

Hard truths about India’s labour reforms
2 years, 7 months ago

Hard truths about India’s labour reforms

The Hindu  

Independent India was born at the midnight hour on August 15, 1947, 75 years ago, when India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled the country’s tricolour flag and announced to Parliament that India had made a “tryst with destiny”. Editorial | Death trap: On Labour reforms The dominant ‘theory-in-use’ to increase employment is to improve the ease of doing business, …

Less take home salary, likely 4-day work week: India’s new labour laws may be implemented next fiscal year
3 years, 3 months ago

Less take home salary, likely 4-day work week: India’s new labour laws may be implemented next fiscal year

Live Mint  

The four labour codes on wages, social security, industrial relations and occupation safety, health and working conditions are likely to be implemented by the next financial year, news agency PTI reported citing a senior government official. The four codes, if implemented, will drastically alter the way industrial houses treat their employees and also impact the working hours, take home salary …

Govt seeks to mend fences with unions to roll out labour codes
3 years, 7 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, …

The shaky foundation of the labour law reforms
3 years, 7 months ago

The shaky foundation of the labour law reforms

The Hindu  

The National Democratic Alliance government enacted the Code on Wages in August 2019 and the other three Codes, viz., the Industrial Relations Code, the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code and Code on Social Security in September 2020. In the meanwhile, the Supreme Court of India has exerted pressure on both the central and the State governments to implement …

Labour regulations need both clarity and uniformity
4 years ago

Labour regulations need both clarity and uniformity

Live Mint  

Workers are often rightly identified as the lifeblood of any organization or industry. As these neo-industries take shape and help expand India’s economy, labour regulations must cater to their workers’ needs and be cognizant of emerging businesses and organizational models. Further, the law on standing orders adopted a very wide definition of ‘industrial establishments’ that is now being applied to …

The fallout of keying in the wrong labour codes
4 years, 3 months ago

The fallout of keying in the wrong labour codes

The Hindu  

On December 12, contract workers ransacked Wistron’s iPhone assembly factory in Karnataka, at Narsapura in Kolar district, about 80 kilometres from Bengaluru. However, according to a preliminary inquiry report by the State labour department into the incident, Wistron and its labour contractors violated many provisions of the laws that led to the violence. India’s labour laws are indeed a cumbersome …

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 Looks to Implement 4 Amended Labour Codes by December, Says Santosh Gangwar
4 years, 6 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, 6 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 …

Parliament Clears Three Codes To Reform Indian Labour Laws [Read Bills]
4 years, 6 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 …

Rajya Sabha approves three codes subsuming 25 central labour laws
4 years, 6 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 …

Cabinet Discusses Labour Reforms, to Push Remaining 3 Codes in Monsoon Session
4 years, 6 months ago

Cabinet Discusses Labour Reforms, to Push Remaining 3 Codes in Monsoon Session

News 18  

The Union Cabinet is believed to have discussed labour reforms in detail on Tuesday so that the remaining three Codes pending in the Lok Sabha could be pushed for Parliament nod during the Monsoon session beginning on Monday. The government wants to push all three remaining labour codes pending in the Lok Sabha for passage," a source said. Earlier this …

Are India’s labour laws too restrictive?
4 years, 10 months ago

Are India’s labour laws too restrictive?

The Hindu  

Some State governments including Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh have proposed ordinances to exempt manufacturing establishments from the purview of most labour laws. Possibly, if certain other conditions are also met., there is no reason to believe that labour laws by themselves will do anything to improve job creation. If none of that is in place, a simple tweaking of …

Provide income support, restore jobs
4 years, 10 months ago

Provide income support, restore jobs

The Hindu  

Following the adage, “never waste a crisis”, the government of Uttar Pradesh, last week, introduced an ordinance that has scrapped most labour laws for three years — ostensibly for creating jobs and for attracting factories exiting China following the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. In fact there is little evidence to suggest that amendment of key labour laws by Rajasthan …

Kerala will not dilute labour laws, says Labour Minister
4 years, 10 months ago

Kerala will not dilute labour laws, says Labour Minister

The Hindu  

Making clear that Kerala has not taken any steps to dilute labour laws, Labour Minister T.P. Some states, including Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, had decided this week to suspend major labour laws for a few years to promote investment in light of the COVID-19 epidemic. CPI Rajya Sabha MP Elamaram Kareem, a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee …

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, …

India at work: Labour reforms aim to boost wages and productivity
5 years, 4 months ago

India at work: Labour reforms aim to boost wages and productivity

Al Jazeera  

Critics of the new reforms say streamlining India’s complex labour laws may help companies more than workers. As a labourer in the informal sector, flipping between physically demanding jobs that offer no social security benefits such as pensions, 23-year-old Kumar is among the 500 million workers that India’s Ministry of Labour and Employment says will benefit from legal reforms. According …

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, …

Centre, states need to pursue labour law reforms: SBI report
5 years, 9 months ago

Centre, states need to pursue labour law reforms: SBI report

India TV News  

The Centre and state governments need to pursue labour law reforms as these are necessary for improving investment and generating employment, said SBI in its research report 'Ecowrap' Thursday. Observing that initiatives taken towards labour law reforms till date are "miniscule", the report said that in an economy like India, which has a large workforce, it is important to improve …

Opinion | Time to simplify India’s archaic labour laws
5 years, 9 months ago

Opinion | Time to simplify India’s archaic labour laws

Live Mint  

Astrong mandate leading to a stable government at the centre has reignited the hopes of many. The new government must show its continued commitment to transparency, cutting red tape and nipping corruption by declaring a deadline for implementing India Stack—which is paperless, presence-less, and cashless. The new government must form National Apprenticeship Corp. by merging the Regional Directorate of Skill …

NITI Aayog unveils strategy document to make India $5-trillion economy by 2030; pitches for labour reforms, social security
6 years, 3 months ago

NITI Aayog unveils strategy document to make India $5-trillion economy by 2030; pitches for labour reforms, social security

Firstpost  

The NITI Aayog Wednesday unveiled a strategy document with an aim to accelerate growth to 8 percent and propel the country towards a $5-trillion economy by 2030. NITI Aayog has pitched for completing labour reforms, increasing participation of women workers, implementing minimum wage, improving employment data collection and broadening social security in its ‘Strategy for New India @75’ document. About …

‘Bill to simplify labour laws coming’
8 years, 1 month 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 …

Labour reforms would happen only through consensus and dialogue: Modi
9 years, 1 month ago

Labour reforms would happen only through consensus and dialogue: Modi

Firstpost  

The Prime Minister expressed hope that this would considerably increase the ease of doing business and facilitate job creation, without compromising on the genuine protections and rights available for workers. Coimbatore: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday asserted that government is engaged in carrying out labour reforms through consensus and dialogue with stakeholders including workers without compromising on their genuine …

Want to attract more FDI into India? Make labour laws flexible, says report
10 years, 6 months ago

Want to attract more FDI into India? Make labour laws flexible, says report

Firstpost  

The report said that existing companies, including MNC subsidiaries, appear to have learnt to manage and expand even despite these constraints. Mumbai: As existing companies have learnt to manage and expand despite labour laws constraints, formal flexibility and improved compliance would help attract more FDI, especially in the manufacturing sector, says a report. Besides competitiveness, reliability is a key metric …

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