After returning to power with increased mandate, labour laws amendment was again taken up by the BJP government led by Modi as a priority. All the labour code bills were introduced in parliament. But, despite its majority in Lok Sabha, BJP government could pass only the Code on Wages. Even as it wanted to push through the others – the Code on Occupational Health and Safety and Working Conditions, the Code on Industrial Relations and the Code on Social Security – it was compelled to refer them to the parliamentary standing committee on labour. Before it could get them enacted, the corona pandemic struck.

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