Giving effect to the new labour codes in full after having brought them in November 2025, the government has now notified final rules for all four codes after a four-month gap from draft rules . A national floor wage by Centre in consultation with an advisory board along with states; a normal working day of eight hours with weekly cap of 48 working hours; mandatory wage slips; social security fund for unorganised sector and gig workers — these are some of the key provisions that will come into effect, with states to follow suit. However, in a critical omission from the draft rules published in January, the Centre has dropped the criteria for calculating minimum wage in the final Code on Wages (Central) Rules, 2025, stating that the criteria will be “separately specified by the central government by special or general order”. This is likely to result in lower minimum wages and higher wage disparities for the same worker category across states, experts said.…