New Labour Laws

New Labour Laws is Taxmann's consolidated single-volume working reference to India's reformed labour law architecture, anchored on the four new Labour Codes—the Code on Wages 2019; the Industrial Relations Code 2020; the Code on Social Security 2020; and the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code 2020. Substantive provisions of the four Codes have been brought into force with effect from 21^st November 2025 vide Notification S.O. 5322(E) and the cognate notifications under each Code, displacing twenty-nine pre-existing Central labour enactments. This 2026 Edition states the law as updated till 8^th May 2026 and is therefore the first comprehensive Taxmann consolidation that reflects the operative regime rather than the pre-enforcement text. The volume is designed to function simultaneously as a bare-act compendium, a transitional companion that maps the codified provisions against the repealed Acts in both directions, an annotated commentary carrying editorial Section Notes and integrated case-law, an employer-side FAQ and compliance manual for the Central Government sphere, and a single-volume reference for the principal labour enactments that remain outside the codification.

The book is intended for:

• Human Resources, Industrial Relations, and Personnel Managers responsible for statutory compliance under the codified labour regime
• Compliance Officers, Company Secretaries, and In-house Counsel handling wage, social security, industrial relations, and occupational safety obligations
• Advocates and Law Firms with Employment, Labour, and Industrial Dispute Practices, including those appearing before Industrial Tribunals and National Industrial Tribunals
• Chartered Accountants and Management Consultants advising on payroll, bonus, gratuity, provident fund, ESI, and contract-labour compliance, particularly on the revised gratuity and wage-base computations
• Officers of the Labour Department, Inspectors-cum-Facilitators, Registering Officers, Certifying Officers, Conciliation Officers, and members of Industrial Tribunals and National Industrial Tribunals
• Factory Occupiers and Managers, mine owners, plantation managers, principal employers, contractors, building and other construction work employers, dock employers, and inter-State migrant work employers
• Aggregators of Gig and Platform Workers newly brought within the social security architecture
• Trade Union Office-Bearers, Federations, and Worker-Side Representatives engaged in registration, negotiation, conciliation, and adjudicatory proceedings
• Academicians, Research Scholars, and Students of labour law, industrial relations, and human resource management
• Internal Committee and Local Committee Members under the workplace harassment redressal regime