Taxmann Labour Laws Edition January 2025

This book provides complete coverage of India’s 20+ laws governing the following:

• Labour Laws,
• Industrial Relations Laws, and
• Industrial Disputes.

Along with the above, the readers get a specially curated & 50+ page ‘Guide to Labour Laws’ to understand better the laws governing labour & industrial disputes.

This book will be handy for employers, employees, legal practitioners, HR professionals, compliance officers, government authorities, and academicians seeking clarity and precision in India’s regulatory framework governing labour and industrial relations.

The Present Publication is the 2025 Edition and amended up to 1^st January 2025. This book is edited by Taxmann’s Editorial Board, with the following coverage:

• Apprentices Act, 1961
• Child and Adolescent Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986
• Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970
• Employee’s Compensation Act, 1923
• Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952
• Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948
• Employment Exchanges (Compulsory Notification of Vacancies) Act, 1959
• Equal Remuneration Act, 1976*
• Factories Act, 1948
• Industrial Disputes Act, 1947
• Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946
• Industrial Tribunals
• Labour Laws (Simplification of Procedure for Furnishing Returns and Maintaining Registers by Certain Establishments) Act, 1988
• Maternity Benefit Act, 1961
• Minimum Wages Act, 1948*
• Payment of Bonus Act, 1965*
• Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972
• Payment of Wages Act, 1936*
• Sales Promotion Employees (Conditions of Service) Act, 1976
• Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013
• Trade Unions Act, 1926
• Tribunal Reforms Act, 2021

* Shall be repealed by Code on Wages, 2019, with effect from a date yet to be notified