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Several Opposition MPs, including Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and erstwhile enactment chiefs Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, protested connected Wednesday (December 3, 2025) against the new labour codes successful Parliament House analyzable and demanded their scrapping.
MPs of the Congress, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), Trinamool Congress (TMC), Left parties, among others, participated successful the protestation successful beforehand of the Makar Dwar of Parliament.
Carrying posters and placards against the caller labour codes, the Opposition MPs raised slogans demanding their rollback.
Besides Mr. Kharge, Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi, Congress wide caput Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, TMC's Dola Sen, DMK's K. Kanimozhi and A. Raja, Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPI (M)'s John Brittas, Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) CPI (ML) Liberation's Sudama Prasad, among others, participated successful the protest.
The MPs besides held a ample banner which work — 'No to Corporate Jungle Raj, Yes to Labour Justice'.
Modi Govt is anti-labour, anti-worker and pro-cronies!
The Opposition parties protested against the Modi Govt successful Parliament today, expressing our beardown objection astir the recently implemented Labour Codes. Some of the superior concerns successful the New Codes are -
Threat to Job… pic.twitter.com/5dpIbuSdFF
The Centre had past period notified the 4 labour codes, pending since 2020.
The Congress had alleged that the 29 existing labour-related laws person been re-packaged into the 4 codes.
श्रम कानूनों को सरल बनाने के नाम पर केंद्र सरकार 4 नये लेबर कोड लेकर आई है। इस बहाने श्रमिकों के हाथ में जितने अधिकार थे, सरकार ने उन्हें छीन लिया। श्रमिकों को पहले से मिली हुई सुरक्षा छीन ली और उनके शोषण के नये रास्ते खोल दिए। इन कानूनों के माध्यम से नरेंद्र मोदी जी की… pic.twitter.com/5LjB4g5wXA
— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) December 3, 2025The 4 labour codes are the Code of Wages (2019), Industrial Relations Code (2020), Code connected Social Security (2020) and Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code (2020).
Key reforms see mandatory assignment letters to workers to guarantee formalisation and occupation security; cosmopolitan societal information coverage, including to gig, platform, contract, and migrant workers, with Provident Fund (PF), Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC), and security benefits; statutory minimum wages and timely outgo crossed each sectors; expanded rights and information for women, including night-shift enactment and mandatory grievance committees and escaped yearly wellness check-ups for workers aged 40 and above.
The codes, however, had earlier travel nether disapproval from commercialized unions implicit unclear provisions connected retrenchment and imaginable discretionary behaviour during the implementation by the Central oregon State governments.
The rules raised the ceiling for mandatory Government support for carrying retired closures, layoffs oregon retrenchment.
Against the existing proviso of establishments employing 100 oregon much workers needing Government nod, the caller codification raises the headdress to 300 workers. It besides increases moving hours successful factories from 9 to 12 hours and successful shops and establishments from 9 to 10 hours.
