Around five years after passing the four labour codes subsuming 29 existing labour laws in 2019-20, the government of India notified them for implementation on November 21, 2025 . The Prime Minister and various other ministers of the government have been engaged in deceptive propaganda claiming that they would benefit all the workers as well as attract investment and provide the much-needed jobs.

But the reality for the workers is entirely different. Let us begin with minimum wages.

The 15th Indian Labour Conference, way back in 1957, unanimously adopted the criteria for fixing minimum wages. This along with the Supreme Court judgment in the Raptakos and Brett case has become the norm for fixing minimum wages. The Labour Code has not included this criterion to fix minimum wage.

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