India, home to the world's largest youth population, is also home to the largest skilled and unskilled workforce. On January 12, India celebrates its National Youth Day in honour of the birth ...

Muzaffarnagar rescue case revives focus on bonded labour laws, constitutional protections and how the Supreme Court expanded workers' rights.

India’s 2025 labour law reforms consolidate 29 central laws into four Labour Codes, aiming to simplify compliance and support the growth of the formal economy. By clarifying rules on hiring and ...

Ditipriya Dutta Chowdhury and Vaishnavi Shukla of TWL Law Group outline the key changes following the enactment of India’s four Labour Codes and what employers should do next, as state rules are rolle ...

India may receive relief from the US Section 301 tariff by agreeing on terms of an interim trade deal and enhancing supply-chain labour compliance to address forced labour concerns and improve market ...

India holds a 3 per cent share of global gross domestic product (GDP) and constitutes 17 per cent of the world’s population. But only 22 per cent of its 25–64-year-olds have attained upper secondary ...

Inter-state migrant workers are a group whose hardships have largely remained unaddressed in India. Recent events have starkly exposed their suffering, fragmentation, exclusion, and heightened ...

To further intensify the super-exploitation of India’s working class by domestic and foreign capital, the far-right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led central government has enacted sweeping changes to ...

Rolling out a simplified new labor code to replace the decades-old colonial one, the Indian government revealed and implemented on Friday a plan to consolidate 29 archaic regulations into four ...

Union Minister for Labour and Employment Shobha Karandlaje held talks with Brazil's Vice Minister of Labour and Employment, Francisco Macena da Silva, during which the two sides discussed cooperation ...