Context
Moving a step closer to rolling out the four crucial labour codes, the Union government said that all states and union territories except four have come on board and pre-published draft rules.
India’s Labour Codes
- India has consolidated 29 central labour laws into four codes on
- The Code on Wages, 2019
- The Industrial Relations Code, 2020
- The Code on Social Security, 2020
- The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020.
- While the parliament approved the Code on Wages in August 2019, the rest three were passed in September 2020. But none of them has been rolled out as yet.
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The Update
- Occupational safety code: By end of 2021, while 24 states and UTs had framed draft rules for the wage code, only 13 had framed draft rules for the occupational safety code.
- Industrial relations code: For the industrial relations code, 20 states/UTs had drawn up the draft rules and for the code on social security, 18 states and UTs had prepared the draft rules.
- Nagaland, Manipur, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan and West Bengal have not framed rules for one or more Codes.
