Government, Policy & Public Sector
India Starts Biggest Labour Reform Drive in Decades
New labor codes promise simpler rules and wider protections but uneven state rollout and union pushback cloud the transition
New labor codes promise simpler rules and wider protections but uneven state rollout and union pushback cloud the transition
Notified last week, the rules take effect immediately while phasing in major duties over the next 18 months, giving enterprises time to overhaul their data practices under a more centralized governance model.
IT industry lobby is developing a national benchmarking framework to evaluate AI models across Indic languages, starting with a Hindi pilot and expanding to speech and multimodal tasks.
A $100,000 levy on new H-1B petitions shakes India’s $283-billion outsourcing engine, even as Washington insists it is safeguarding American jobs