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Textile sector welcomes new Labour Codes, albeit with scepticism & questions
The Statesman Bhubaneswar
|December 08, 2025
The recently notified Labour Codes may offer big gains for India's textile & apparel sector, but the new wage provisions may pose more challenges than one.
There is no doubt that the new Labour Codes have the potential to vastly improve the competitiveness of India’s textile and apparel sector, but provisions related to the wage component and interstate migrant workers would need careful navigation by textile and apparel units, feels Noorul Hassan, Executive Partner, Lakshmi kumaran Sridharan Attorneys (LKS). That's what the industry also feels.
First, let's look at the positive sides. With the rationalisation of the 29 existing labour laws into four comprehensive Labour
Codes on Wages, Industrial Relations, Social Security, and Occupational Safety, Health & Working Conditions, the Centre is believed to have initiated one of the most far-reaching labour reforms in recent times, which is aimed at simplifying and consolidating multiple legislations,
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