FAQs on Labour Codes

This FAQ page on India's new labour codes designed to address the most common queries by businesses, HR professionals, and employees regarding the new labour law reforms, including the Code on Wages, 2019, Industrial Relations Code, 2020, Code on Social Security, 2020, and Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020. These codes bring about major changes relating to the definition of wages, structure of salaries, the impact of PF, Gratuity, ESI and compliance. With the ongoing changes in regulations, and the ambiguity surrounding them, this page attempts to be a reliable knowledge centre and simplify the complex legal questions and provide direct and precise answers, along with the most relevant and recent information.

The focus in creating this labour code FAQ has been to provide guidance on the definition of wages in the new wage code, how it will affect take home salary, changes to provident fund (PF) ,ESI , Overtime and gratuity, compliance burden on companies, and when do they expect it all to come into effect.