 Code on Wages, 2019

The Code on Wages, 2019, also known as the Wage Code, is an Act of the Parliament of India that consolidates the provisions of four labour laws concerning wage and bonus payments and makes universal the provisions for minimum wages and timely payment of wages for all workers in India.The Narendra Modi administration began considering a plan in 2015 to consolidate India's 44 labour laws into four codes in order to rationalize labour laws and improve ease of doing business.