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flag India enacts new labour codes to modernize laws, extend social security to informal workers, and balance growth with worker rights.

flag India’s new labour codes, aimed at modernizing outdated laws from the 1920s and 1930s, consolidate nearly 30 central labour laws into four codes to adapt to digital and platform work. flag Justice Manmohan, speaking at a CII-SILF conference, emphasized the reforms’ goal of balancing economic growth with worker dignity, extending social security to nearly 50 crore informal workers, ensuring equal benefits for fixed-term employees, and allowing women to work night shifts with consent and safety. flag The codes reduce bureaucratic oversight by redefining inspectors as facilitators and promote flexibility for employers, but Justice Manmohan stressed implementation remains critical, requiring state-level digital systems and administrative capacity. flag While critics argue the codes weaken worker protections, government officials defend them as tailored to India’s context, designed to harmonize growth, justice, and constitutional values.

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