The Government of India has announced that the four Labour Codes - the Code on Wages, 2019, the Industrial Relations Code, 2020, the Code on Social Security, 2020 and the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 are being made effective from 21st November 2025.

The move consolidates and replaces 29 Central labour laws, marking what the Centre called a “historic modernisation” of India's labour regulatory framework.

According to the Government, many of India's labour laws were designed in the pre-Independence and early post-Independence era, and had become fragmented and outdated. The unified Codes aim to simplify compliance, reduce ambiguity and extend comprehensive protections to workers across sectors, including gig, platform, contract, migrant, women and MSME work

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