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The Congress connected Monday (May 11, 2026) lashed retired astatine the Central authorities which has afloat operationalised the 4 labour codes by notifying the last rules, alleging that these codes are the top setback for workers' rights since Independence.
In a statement, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said the Modi government, successful its emblematic cowardly fashion, waited for the Assembly elections to reason earlier notifying the 4 "anti-worker" labour codes done a bid of gazette notifications connected May 8 and 9, 2026.
"For crores of India's workers, these codes committedness a aboriginal of hire-and-fire policies, declaration employment, and constricted abstraction for unionisation," Mr. Kharge said successful a statement. “It is important to enactment that the Modi authorities drafted and implemented these "anti-worker" codes without immoderate consultation,” helium said.
"It has not adjacent convened the Indian Labour Conference since 2015. These codes, which payment lone the Prime Minister's industrialist friends, are the top setback for workers' rights since Independence," Mr. Kharge alleged. He said the Indian National Congress remains resolute successful its imaginativeness for India's workers.
"We are committed to our five-point Shramik Nyay agenda: restoration of MGNREGA and its hold to municipality areas, and nationalist minimum wage astatine ₹400 per day, including for MGNREGA; Right to Health instrumentality that volition supply cosmopolitan wellness sum of ₹25 lakh; broad societal information for each unorganised workers, including beingness security and mishap insurance; a committedness to halt contractualisation of employment successful halfway authorities functions; and to reappraisal the Modi government's dilution of labour laws," helium said.
After a agelong hold of implicit 5 years, the Central authorities has afloat operationalised the 4 labour codes by publishing the last rules, ensuring minimum wage and cosmopolitan societal information for each workers.
The 4 codes — namely the Code connected Wages, 2019; the Industrial Relations Code, 2020; the Code connected Social Security, 2020; and the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 — came into effect from November 21, 2025.
The 4 codes were introduced to modernise and consolidate 29 labour laws into a simplified and modern framework.
An authoritative said the rules nether the 4 codes are present notified successful the authoritative gazette of the government, and with this, the process of afloat implementation of the labour codes is complete.
