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CPI(M) MP Kareem Moves Private Member’s Bill to Repeal Four Labour Codes -Ronak Chhabra

-Newsclick.in Speaking to NewsClick in a telephone interview on Friday, the Rajya Sabha leader lamented that the Centre has “not accepted even a single recommendation” that was made to it by Standing Committee on Labour in its different reports over the Labour Codes. New Delhi: Communist Party of India (Marxist) Rajya Sabha MP Elamaram Kareem on Friday introduced a Private Member’s Bill that seeks to repeal the contentious four Labour Codes which...

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‘Cruel Farce’: Retrenched Workers May Have to Prove Re-skilling, says Report -Ronak Chhabra

-Newsclick.in The re-skilling fund, introduced through a new labour code bill, may end up discouraging workers from using it, fear experts. The re-skilling fund, introduced through the Industrial Relations (IR) Code Bill, 2020, with an aim to train the retrenched workers, may come with controversial provisions for the beneficiaries, including requiring them to produce a proof of conformity to the government, a media report on Monday has hinted. A retrenched worker, who takes...

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New Labour Codes and Their Loopholes

-Economic and Political Weekly Every successive reform in labour laws fails to plug the loopholes. The passage of the three labour code bills by Parliament —the Industrial Relations Code (IRC) Bill, 2020, the Code on Social Security (CSS) Bill, 2020, and the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code (OSHWCC) Bill, 2020—and the Code on Wages (CW) Bill enacted in 2019 is the first major milestone in labour market reforms in over...

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Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Union Labour and Employment Minister, interviewed by Damini Nath (The Hindu)

-The Hindu The existing labour laws fell short in responding to the changed world of work The recently passed Code on Social Security, the Industrial Relations Code and the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, which along with the Code on Wages, 2019 subsume 29 labour laws into four codes, were passed after widespread consultations, says Union Labour and Employment Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar * There has been criticism about the manner...

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Labour Experts Dismiss Modi’s ‘Boost to Economy’ Brouhaha Over Codes -Ronak Chhabra

-Newsclick.in Reforms in labour laws will not create jobs, if at all, the conditions of employment will be a “disaster”, they say. The labour codes approved by Parliament are the wrong solution for the wrong problem, experts and academicians argue, even as the Centre continues to harp on about bolstering investments and creating jobs through relaxing regulatory laws, now, more desperately in the wake of the pandemic-triggered disruptions. The wrong problem: labour laws...

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