India, May 3 -- India's sweeping consolidation of labour laws into four Labour Codes marks one of the most consequential shifts in the country's economic governance. The reforms promise streamlined compliance and modernised regulation. But is not the state moving away from its role as protector of labour toward a business facilitator in a market still dominated by informality, stagnant wages, and weak bargaining power

Code on Social Security extends social security benefits like insurance and pensions to gig and platform workers

Few legislative transformations in recent Indian history have been as consequential or as surreptitiously executed as the consolidation of 44 central labour laws into four Labour Codes. The Codes on Wages, Indus...