GS-II: Governance, Polity, IR
Labour codes
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Twenty-nine central labour laws have been consolidated into four codes: the Code on Wages 2019, Industrial Relations Code 2020, Code on Social Security 2020, and Occupational Safety Health & Working Conditions Code 2020. They simplify compliance, extend social security to gig and platform workers, and redefine concepts like 'worker', 'fixed-term employment', and 'threshold' for applicability. Because labour is a Concurrent List subject, states must frame their own rules before the codes take effect — raising issues of cooperative federalism, ease of doing business, and worker protection.