[Marxistindia] Revoke Labour Code

[news from the cpi(m)]

November 22, 2025

 

Press Statement

 

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the
following statement:

 

Revoke Labour Code

 

The CPI(M) Polit Bureau strongly opposes the unilateral notification of the
four Labour Codes by the BJP-led Central Government.

 

The Labour Codes dismantle 29 hard-won labour laws that have, till now,
protected the workers to some extent. Despite many limitations, to an extent
the wages, working hours, social security, industrial safety,
inspection-compliance mechanisms, and collective bargaining were in place.
Instead of simplification, the new Codes seek to dilute and abolish
long-established existing rights and entitlements and shift the balance
sharply in favour of employers.

 

The Government's claim that the Labour Codes will boost employment and
investment is completely baseless. The Codes are designed to leave labour
unprotected in the face of the onslaught of capital. Their aim is to lure
national and international capital by ensuring that all meaningful
regulations covering various aspects of labour rights will be nullified.
Further, they seek to snatch away the right to strike and criminalise any
collective action by the working class. 

 

The Labour Codes, in totality, seek to establish a jungle raj by
unilaterally empowering the corporate class to bulldoze the rights and
entitlements of workers with proactive sponsorship of the Government and
administration.

 

The Polit Bureau also condemns the gross obnoxious violation of democratic
and federal norms in pushing these Codes without genuine tripartite
consultation with the stakeholders, particularly the workers. The Government
sidelined trade unions throughout the process and rushed the legislation
through Parliament without debate. Rather, the Government arrogantly
rejected the valid objections to the Labour Codes based on irrefutable
arguments and concrete documentary evidence.

 

The CPI(M) calls for the immediate withdrawal of the Labour Codes and urges
all trade unions and democratic forces to build united struggles to resist
the authoritarian design of the Government and defend  the rights and
entitlements of the working people, and their struggle for   more
comprehensive labour rights and protections.

 

 

 

Muralidharan

(For CPI(M) Central Committee Office)

 

 

 

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