Minimum wages and wage compliance rules under the Code on Wages set wage norms, records, deductions, bonus and claim procedures.
Prescribes draft Central rules under the Code on Wages, 2019 for minimum wages, floor wage, payment of wages, bonus, claims, registers, forms, and Central Advisory Board procedure. The rules fix wage computation norms based on a standard working-class family, regulate dearness allowance revision, working hours, weekly rest, night shifts, deductions, advances, fines, bonus set on and set off, and the handling of undisbursed dues. They also require prescribed employee records, wage slips, annual returns, and complaint and appeal procedures, while updating occupational skill classifications in Schedule E.

Social security rules consolidate registration, benefits, governance and claims procedures under the Code on Social Security framework.
Draft Code on Social Security (Central) Rules, 2025 consolidate the procedural framework for the Code on Social Security, 2020, including definitions, registration and cancellation of establishments, governance of social security bodies, and procedural rules for provident fund, employees' state insurance, gratuity, maternity benefit, employment information, and employees' compensation. The draft supersedes several earlier central labour rules, preserves acts done before supersession, invites objections and suggestions within forty-five days, and prescribes electronic filing, portal-based compliance, meeting procedures, benefit conditions, appeal mechanisms, and detailed forms for administration.

Occupational safety and working conditions rules set registration, reporting, licensing, and mine safety compliance requirements for employers.
Draft Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions (Central) Rules, 2025 prescribe the central compliance framework for implementation of the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020. The rules provide for electronic registration, appeals, accident and disease reporting, employer and employee duties, and the constitution and functioning of advisory and technical bodies. They also regulate safety committees, safety officers, women's night work, contract labour licensing, migrant worker measures, audio-visual worker agreements, and extensive mine safety, medical, rescue and training requirements.

Industrial relations procedure rules set the framework for settlements, bargaining bodies, standing orders, disputes, layoffs and worker reskilling.
Industrial Relations (Central) Rules, 2025 prescribe the forms, authorities, time-limits, electronic modes, registers and procedural requirements for implementing the Industrial Relations Code, 2020. The rules govern settlements, Works Committees, Grievance Redressal Committees, negotiating unions and negotiating councils, model standing orders, notice of change, arbitration, conciliation, strikes and lock-outs, lay-off, retrenchment and closure, a Worker Re-Skilling Fund, compounding of offences, protected workers, complaints, enquiries and maintenance of records.

Corrigendum to labour law notification clarifies section references and specified code exceptions in the operative exemptions.
A corrigendum amends the Ministry of Labour and Employment notification dated 21 November 2025 by correcting the entries against serial numbers 2, 3, 7 and 8. The revised text clarifies that the references are to section 15, section 16, and section 164, with specified exceptions for provisions of the Code identified in S.O. 2060(E), dated 3 May 2023.

Industrial Relations Code transition: existing labour courts and tribunals continue to adjudicate until new bodies are appointed.
The Order, effective 8 December 2025 and issued under section 103 of the Industrial Relations Code, 2020, clarifies that existing Labour Courts, Industrial Tribunals and National Industrial Tribunals constituted under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 will continue to adjudicate existing and new cases until corresponding tribunals under the Code are constituted, and that existing statutory authorities under the Trade Unions Act, 1926, the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946 and the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 will continue to function pending appointment of authorities under the Code.

Code on Wages effective 21 November 2025 for specified provisions including sections 1-41 and 43-66.
21 November 2025 is appointed as the effective date for commencement of specific provisions of the Code on Wages, 2019, including sections 1-41, sub-sections (4)-(9) of section 42, sections 43-66, specified parts of section 67, section 68, and section 69, with an express exclusion for provisions of section 69 addressed by an earlier notification.

Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code provisions commence on 21 November 2025, setting the Code's effective date.
The Central Government, exercising the power under sub section (2) of section 1 of the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020, appoints 21 November 2025 as the date on which the provisions of the Code shall come into force, thereby fixing the Code's commencement date by official notification.

Industrial Relations Code effective 21 November 2025: central government appoints commencement date under statutory power.
The Central Government, exercising its statutory commencement power under the Industrial Relations Code, 2020, appoints 21 November 2025 as the date on which the provisions of the Code shall come into force by Ministry of Labour and Employment notification.

Code on Social Security commencement notification brings specified provisions into force with stated exclusions and later corrigenda.
The Central Government appoints 21 November 2025 as the date on which specified provisions of the Code on Social Security, 2020 come into force. The notification covers sections 1 to 14, section 15 and section 16 subject to stated exclusions, sections 17 to 141, section 143 subject to a stated exclusion, sections 144 to 163, and sub-sections (1) to (3) of section 164 subject to stated exclusions. The instrument also records subsequent corrigenda substituting the wording of the affected provisions.

Provident fund damages recovery powers authorised for regional officers with territorially mapped jurisdiction under the EPF law.
Authorizes specified provident fund commissioners to exercise powers under section 14B of the Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 to recover damages from employers by way of penalty for defaults relating to covered factories and establishments, with territorial jurisdiction allocated in the Schedule. The notification supersedes the earlier 17 April 2002 notification and takes effect on publication in the Official Gazette.

Code on Wages: amendment designates the Minister in Charge of Labour and Employment as Central Advisory Board Chairperson.
Amendment replaces rule 3(3)(i) of the Code on Wages (Central Advisory Board) Rules, 2021 by designating the Chairperson as the Minister in Charge, Ministry of Labour and Employment. The change was made under clauses (s) and (t) of section 67(2) of the Code on Wages, 2019 following public notice with no objections, and the amendment takes effect on publication in the Official Gazette.

Ministerial designation change aligns Central Advisory Board rule with Ministry of Labour and Employment; draft open for public consultation.
The draft substitutes the ministerial reference in rule 3(3)(i) of the Code on Wages (Central Advisory Board) Rules, 2021 with "Minister in Charge, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India", establishes the short title as the Code on Wages (Central Advisory Board Amendment) Rules, 2025 and sets commencement upon publication in the Official Gazette; the draft is published for public consultation with submissions to be made to the identified Ministry official within the prescribed consultation period.