New Wage Code And its Impact
Background During 2019 and 2020, as many as 29 labour laws amalgamated, simplified, rationalized into 4 labour codes as below: The code on Wages 2019 The Industrial Relations Code 2020 The code on Social Security 2020 The Occupancy Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code 2020 These four codes are likely to be implemented soon as around 23 states have already come out with draft rules (as Labour is Concurrent subject) How New Labour Code Impact Employees? The four codes, if implemented, will drastically alter the way industrial houses treat their employees and also impact the working hours, take home salary and other rights of employees. Once the wages code comes into force, there will be significant changes in terms of salary restricting, basic pay, provident fund, gratuity of employees are calculated. A key change is that it would impact take-home pay, but increase retirement savings—something that a section employers are opposed to as it may increase their employee costs. As...