Workplace & Compliance

This section brings together our writing on the laws, policies, and processes that govern how Indian businesses employ and manage people. The four labour codes (the Code on Wages, the Industrial Relations Code, the Social Security Code, and the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code) reorganise decades of statutory law into a single framework. We write about their provisions as rules and notifications come into force, and we examine where the new codes change established practice and where they preserve it.

Beyond the codes, you will find articles on payroll mechanics, Provident Fund and ESI compliance, gratuity calculation and funding, professional tax across states, bonus and labour welfare fund obligations, POSH committee constitution and reporting, contract labour regulation, and Employer of Record arrangements for foreign companies hiring in India without a local entity. We also cover the questions that surface when statute meets practice: how to structure offer letters under the new wage definition, how full-and-final settlements should be computed, when an independent contractor risks reclassification as an employee, and what changes when a company crosses thresholds that trigger additional compliance.

We focus on what the law requires, what it costs to comply, where the documentation needs to sit, and where the risk falls when filings are missed or definitions misread. The articles are written for founders, finance heads, HR leads, and in-house counsel who want to understand a rule before they apply it.