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The Great Reset: Will the Labour Codes improve ease of doing business?
The Centre has finally notified the four Labour Codes, which are expected to reduce the compliance burden, improve ease of doing business and benefit the labour force. But the long-awaited reforms have evoked mixed reactions.

2026-01-04

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Editor's Note

Grounded in Labour: Enforcement of the Labour Codes will be the key

But until enforcement is uniform, and accountability real, the codes will remain what Indian reform becomes too often: theoretically sound, but operationally shaky.