Industrial Relations Code rules in final stages: Centre to HC

The Union government on Monday told the Delhi high court that the rules to implement the new Industrial Relations Code (“Code”) shall be finalised by the end of February.

- Shruti Kakkar

The Industrial Relations Code, 2020, which is one of the four Labour Codes that replaced 29 older labour laws, came into force on November 21. The Industrial Relations Code, 2020, isa specific, single code within the larger Labour Codes. It replaces previous acts such as the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, and the Trade Unions Act, 1926, to govern industrial relations.

The Union government's lawyer, solicitor general Tushar Mehta, along with standing counsel Ashish Dixit, submitted before a bench of Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia that the rule making process is continuing and that objections and suggestions from the public have already been invited.