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With New ‘Industrial Relations’ Code, What Does the Future Look Like for India’s Trade Unions? -Soumya Jha and Ulka Bhattacharyya

-TheWire.in

Amidst the pandemic, digital acceleration and related developments in the US and the UK, provisions in the Code address India's absence of a central framework to recognise and regulate trade unions.

The roll-out of the Industrial Relations Code, 2020 and the draft Industrial Relations (Central) Recognition of Negotiating Union or Negotiating Council and Adjudication of Disputes of Trade Unions Rules, 2021 as part of India’s labour reforms initiative, is in the offing.

The specific recognition of “negotiating unions” under this is significant in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and fast-growing digitalisation, both of which have necessitated a rethink of the role of collective bargaining and trade unions.

Given recent regulatory developments on this topic in the United States and the United Kingdom, this development in India assumes importance.

The Code and negotiating unions

The erstwhile Trade Unions Act, 1926 (TU Act), by itself did not mandate trade union registration or recognition; it only provided a framework for registration and for registered trade unions to operate. 

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