✅ New Labour Codes in India: Full List of 29 Old Laws Merged Into 4 New Codes
The Government of India has simplified labour regulations by merging 29 separate labour laws into 4 modern Labour Codes. This reform aims to make compliance easier, reduce complexity, and improve protections for workers.
🟦 Code on Wages, 2019
Merged Old Laws (4)
- Payment of Wages Act, 1936
- Minimum Wages Act, 1948
- Payment of Bonus Act, 1965
- Equal Remuneration Act, 1976
Purpose: To create a uniform and simple wage structure across India.
🟩 Industrial Relations Code, 2020
Merged Old Laws (3)
- Trade Unions Act, 1926
- Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946
- Industrial Disputes Act, 1947
Purpose: To simplify industrial relations — hiring, firing, dispute resolution and trade union regulation.
🟧 Occupational Safety, Health & Working Conditions (OSH) Code, 2020
Merged Old Laws (13)
- Factories Act, 1948
- Mines Act, 1952
- Dock Workers (Safety, Health & Welfare) Act, 1986
- Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996
- Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970
- Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979
- Working Journalists and Other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1955
- Working Journalists (Fixation of Rates of Wages) Act, 1958
- Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961
- Sales Promotion Employees (Conditions of Service) Act, 1976
- Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966
- Cine-Workers and Cinema Theatre Workers Act, 1981

- Plantation Labour Act, 1951
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