Covid-19: Why labour law relaxations will need to undergo judicial scrutiny

Geetika Srivastava checks out whether the recent labour law relaxations announced by several states pass the legal smell test

As state governments scurry to relax multiple labour laws (and then repeal some relaxations like the UP’s recent notification over working hours) to tide over the Covid-19-induced economic crisis, most legal experts feel that before they come into effect, these measures will have to undergo judicial scrutiny. Business Standard spoke to analysts and experts to get a sense of the various tests such laws would have to pass.
 

The constitutionality test

This test is for every individual relaxation that states plan to give in labour laws. Some relaxations may come into effect, whereas some may be struck down, say legal