On Friday, the Centre issued four gazette notifications for the four respective labour code laws passed in 2019 and 2020, these being: Code on Wages, Industrial Relations Code, Code on Social Security and Code on Occupational Safety and Health. These laws will finally come into effect after all these years. But rules regarding administrative and procedural issues remain to be finalised for these codes to be implemented in right earnest; it is hoped that these are readied sooner than later.

The Centre can justifiably claim the unification of 29 labour laws to be a landmark ease of doing business move. Over 1,400 rules have been scrunched into 365, with the compliance formalities in terms of registration, and filling up forms and registers too coming down sharply. Significantly, the codes m

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