PLFS 2025 Highlights
- overall LPFR: 59%
- male: 79%
- female: 40%
- rural: 62%
- urban: 52%
- Why not participating?
- 69% male - continuation of study
- 44.4% female - childcare, household
- improved earnings
- 5.8% inc in earning in regular salaried jobs for males
- 7.2% for female
Labour Codes
- simplifying compliance
- need highlighted by 2nd National Commission on Labour
- modernizing archaic, colonial era laws
- universal coverage gap
- addressing new work forms
- inter state migrant worker
- gig / platform worker
- failure to deliver promised wage hikes
- revision to minimum wages have not materialized
- delayed operationalization of provisions
- higher layoff threshold
- stringent strike conditions
- unevent state level notifications