India on Friday introduced four major labor codes that guarantee a minimum wage, gratuity and social security for more than 400 million workers, in what the government said was a modernization of decades-old labor laws.
In a detailed post on social media platform X (formerly Twitter), Union Minister Mansukh Mandaviya wrote, “From today new labor laws are being implemented in the country. These reforms are not just ordinary changes but a major step by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the welfare of the workforce.”
“These new labor reforms are an important step towards an independent India and will give a fresh impetus to the goal of a developed India by 2047,” he added.
Codes adapt labor system to global standards: Govt
The Ministry of Labor and Employment said in a statement on Friday that the center introduced four new labor codes that are effective today and rationalized 29 existing labor laws.
- Wage Code, 2019,
- industrial relations code, 2020,
- Social Security Act of 2020 a
- the Health, Safety and Working Conditions Act 2020.
The update aims to modernize Indian labor law, which was framed in the pre-independence and early post-independence era (1930s-1950s), in an economy and world that was “fundamentally different”, the statement added.
