Consolidating the labour laws
Issues & challenges
The Budget promises to come up with a plan to consolidate labour laws under four subjects: Wages, industrial relations, social security and working conditions. “Fragmentation is a big issue as there are more than 100 statutes and many of them overlap,” says Avik Biswas, partner, IndusLaw. There are cumbersome procedural requirements with multiple licences and registrations. “Most of our labour statutes are in the context of manufacturing-based, traditional employer-employee relations,” says Biswas. The biggest challenge to labour law reforms has been the political backlash — be it from the unions,
Issues & challenges
The Budget promises to come up with a plan to consolidate labour laws under four subjects: Wages, industrial relations, social security and working conditions. “Fragmentation is a big issue as there are more than 100 statutes and many of them overlap,” says Avik Biswas, partner, IndusLaw. There are cumbersome procedural requirements with multiple licences and registrations. “Most of our labour statutes are in the context of manufacturing-based, traditional employer-employee relations,” says Biswas. The biggest challenge to labour law reforms has been the political backlash — be it from the unions,
