While the Centre’s decision to put into effect the four Labour Codes has been welcomed across the board, industry bodies and labour experts have said the government must now turn its attention to the implementational challenges.

Such challenges include the burden these new laws will place on smaller enterprises and the services sector, the problems associated with the overnight implementation of such sweeping changes, and the need for authorities to be conciliatory rather than over-strict with defaulters.

The Centre on Friday (November 21, 2025) announced that the four labour codes it had introduced about five years ago — the Code on Wages, 2019, the Industrial Relations Code, 2020, the Code on Social Security, 2020 and the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020

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