Service & Labour Laws

India’s labour law reform, consolidating over two dozen central labour statutes into four labour codes, the Code on Wages, the Industrial Relations Code, the Code on Social Security, and the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, has created both significant opportunity and considerable complexity for employers and employees alike. The codes bring changes to wage definitions, retrenchment and layoff thresholds, fixed-term employment, social security coverage for gig and platform workers, and workplace safety obligations, among other areas. For employers, this means revisiting employment contracts, compensation structures, and HR policies to ensure compliance, while employees face a shifting landscape of entitlements and protections that many are still working to fully understand.

Ashvik Legal’s service and labour law practice advises both employers and government bodies on this evolving framework, alongside handling more traditional service law and labour disputes, including matters relating to termination, disciplinary proceedings, retrenchment, industrial disputes, and service conditions for government and public sector employees. The firm’s institutional relationships with public sector undertakings and government departments across Delhi and Guwahati give it particular depth in service law matters involving government employees and statutory corporations, an area that involves its own distinct procedural and constitutional considerations, separate from private sector employment disputes.

The firm’s advocates represent clients before Labour Courts, Industrial Tribunals, service tribunals, and the High Courts, and advise on structuring compliant employment frameworks as the labour codes are implemented across states. Given that implementation timelines and rules vary by state and continue to evolve, Ashvik Legal places emphasis on keeping clients current on the practical implications of these changes for their specific sector and workforce, rather than offering generic compliance advice, consistent with the firm’s broader approach of advice that is clear, actionable, and grounded in the actual state of the law.