Govt gives digitisation push to labour codes, makes draft rules public

Number of rules will come down from over 80 to 42 for labour laws relating to industrial relations.

The government has made public the first set of draft rules under the labour codes approved by Parliament recently, which is aimed at ensuring time-bound permission for companies to retrench, lay-off or shut its businesses.

The Union labour and employment ministry has proposed to rationalise the number of forms from 30 under the present laws to 12, according to the draft Industrial Relation (Central) Rules, 2020, which have been made public for comments for a period of 30 days.

The government has proposed to facilitate both trade unions and employers to submit information or seek permission under the labour codes