Overview

• Approximately 250 million workers in banking, insurance, mining and rural industries are participating in today’s walkout.
• Unions argue that rules on women’s night shifts, compounding of offences and raising layoff thresholds from 100 to 300 employees weaken worker protections.
• Thirty-one states have enacted local legislation to mirror the unnotified labour codes, creating a patchwork of rules in response to federal inaction.
• The largest federations, Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh and National Front of Indian Trade Unions, along with about 18 state unions, have stayed out of the strike.
• Union Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya has signalled readiness to negotiate with workers even as the Centre continues to defer formal code notification.