The new wage definition is an attempt to simplify the various regulations related to wages with the promise of easier implementation. However, India Inc still awaits the details. The Bill is anticipated to get enforced by April 2021

Ministry has now sought views from stakeholders on these draft rules in 45 days. Along with OSH & WC, govt has also put forward draft rules for all four labour codes

Labour Minister Santosh Gangwar in September said that efforts would be made to complete the labour reforms by implementing the all four labour codes by December 2020

The economic crisis following the pandemic and untimely national lockdown have been used by both the central and state governments to push through unilateral measures that undermine workers' interest by dismantling critical protections

Neither the Wage Code 2019 nor the draft Rules 2020 notified in July 2020 under it links wage to labour productivity, strengthen implementation regime, make minimum wage universal or limit working hours to 8-hour a day to improve the lot of workers

The organisation welcomed the government decision to fix the duration of working time to 8 hours a day instead of the 9 hours prescribed in the current Minimum Wages Act and the previous draft of the Wage Code

In a major change from the past, the draft rules propose that every employer has to issue wage slips, electronically or physically to the employees. This would add to transparency and reduce harassment of workers

Easier and simpler labour laws, and flexibility to manage employees, can work wonders for businesses

While UP has put a blanket exemption on all labour laws, barring three for next three years, thereby making it easy to hire and fire, MP's approach is far more balanced by amending existing industrial acts

\"There is already very poor enforcement of labour laws in India, and even those are being suspended and withdrawn. This is very inappropriate and we can't endorse it,\" says BMS General Secretary Virjesh Upadhyay

In the post-industrial democratic era, they have benefited immensely from the public provisioning of health and education that produces quality labour, infrastructure, natural resources, tax incentives, loan write offs (NPAs), bailouts, stimulus packages, and much more. Yet increasingly they use tax havens, shell companies and other tools to evade and avoid paying back

New Lockdown in India live update, Covid-19 guidelines:  In the last 24 hours, 1,076 new cases have been reported, while 377 people have died because of the COVID-2019 infection

Coronavirus India latest updates: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday that the nationwide lockdown will be in effect from midnight to save every Indian. The 21-day lockdown period is to prevent the further spread of COVID-19

Coronavirus outbreak in India latest news: The two persons, from Pilibhit and Kanpur, who had travel history to the Middle East and the US have been tested positive for COVID-19

Budget 2020: In today's speech, the FM broke her own record and delivered the longest Union Budget speech, which was 159 minutes long

Budget 2020: The proposed liberalisation of the insurance sector, ease of restrictions on FDI by JVs/WOS of Indian parties and other measures taken for liberalising FDI are expected to spur investments and raise investor sentiment

\"Any employee going on strike in any form would face the consequences which, besides deduction of wages, may also include appropriate disciplinary action\"

This move may come as a huge relief to the companies as they would not need to bear the social security costs of the workers

The lawmakers voted 358 to 234 in favour of the so-called divorce agreement with the 28-member economic bloc, handing Johnson a decisive 124-vote majority

The central government is in the process of implementing Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions (OSH) Code, and Code on Wages