Modi Govt’s Key Labour Reform Bill May Get Delayed

The bill to create a health and safety net for workers in India might have to wait longer for its passage after a House panel said it would require more time to review it even as the labor ministry is keen to clear the bill in the upcoming winter session of Parliament. The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2019, introduced in the Lok Sabha by labor minister Santosh Gangwar in July this year, is under the scrutiny of the parliamentary standing committee of labor. The Biju Janata Dal’s MP Bhartruhari Mahtab, the chairman of the panel, said that it’s the first meeting on the bill will be held on October 25.

The four codes on the labor sector are widely viewed as the next generation reforms in the labor market that have been mired in complex and archaic laws. These codes—on wages, health, industrial relations, and social security—aim to simply the legal tangles and subsume 44 labor-related laws.

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