On Friday, 8 May 2026, the Ministry of Labour and Employment notified the final Central Rules under all four Labour Codes — the Code on Wages (G.S.R. 343(E)), the Code on Social Security (G.S.R. 344(E)), the Industrial Relations Code (plus Model Standing Orders, 2026), and the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code (G.S.R. 345(E)). Twenty-nine central labour laws repealed. Four consolidated Codes in force since 21 November 2025. The procedural rulebooks are now live.
After a forty-five-day public consultation that closed in February 2026, the Ministry of Labour and Employment notified the final Central Rules under all four Labour Codes on a single Friday evening. The Code on Wages rules supersede seventeen prior instruments dating to 1937. The Social Security rules supersede nine welfare statutes including the Employee's Compensation Rules of 1924. The OSH rules supersede fifteen sets of procedural rules spanning factories, mines, docks, contract labour and inter-state migrants. The IR rules and Model Standing Orders 2026 replace the 1946 industrial employment framework.
This page is the gateway. Each Code has its own full deep-dive — sourced directly from the gazette text, with key numbers, FAQ, and action items. Click into the one that matters to you.
Each deep-dive is built directly from the gazette text — every rule reference, form number, threshold and timeline sourced from the official notification. Where the rules are silent, the page is silent.
Every deep-dive on this site is built directly from the relevant gazette text — G.S.R. 343(E) for Wages, G.S.R. 344(E) for Social Security, and G.S.R. 345(E) for OSH. The IR deep-dive is sourced from the official notification and Model Standing Orders, 2026 gazette. Every rule reference, form number, threshold and timeline is taken from the gazette text. Where the rules are silent, this site is silent. We do not paraphrase from press summaries.
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