Labour Rights under the Indian Labour Legislations: A Bird’s Eye View on the Protection of Rights of Labourers under the Recently Introduced Labour Code of India
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Date
2021-09
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Indian Journal of Law and Justice
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Bandyopadhyay, Rathin
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University of North Bengal
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Debnath, D. (2021). Labour Rights under the Indian Labour Legislations: A Bird’s Eye View on the Protection of Rights of Labourers under the Recently Introduced Labour Code of India. Indian Journal of Law and Justice, 12(2), 279–288. https://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/4216
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Debnath, Dipankar
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Abstract
India, one of the most labour-intensive countries of the world, has finally taken a leap of
faith and codified 44 of its national-level labour laws into four broad codes on ‘wages’,
‘industrial relations’, ‘social security’ and ‘occupational safety and hea lth’. This has
triggered a longstanding controversy between the stakeholder and the government as,
according to the government the existing labour laws have created hindrances to the
Indian manufacturing sectors as well as it discourages foreign companies to set up their
respective wings within the country. This in turn amounted to huge loss to the country’s
income and revenue. The Code has received criticism from trade unions and activists
however, it has been welcome on the ground that the Code would help in reviving
India’s economy involving two-fold benefits providing to the workers as well as to the
industrialists. It has been argued that India’s existing labour laws as remnants of an
archaic past considering them as ineffective for workers and burdensome on the
employer and should be dismantled.
In the above backdrop, the pertinent questions that remain to be examined are whether
the recent drastic changes in the various labour laws are going to fulfil the purpose
fostering the economic development of the country at the cost of various rights of the
labours? Whether such steps on the part of the governments are in consonance with the
constitutional provisions? Whether the reformations in labour laws would help the
government’s initiative to implement the liberalisations concept attracting the foreign
investors? Do we need a sustainable strong manufacturing sector? This paper has
focused on the pros and cons of the recently introduced Labour Code in the light of
above questions and made an attempt to dig out whether the Code would be successful
in protecting the rights of the labourers?
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Labourers Right, Labour Laws, Labour Code, Reforms, Legal vacuum
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12
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2
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0976-3570
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279 - 288