Kerala forms a committee with seven trade union representatives to advise on State rules under the Labour Codes

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Kerala forms a committee with seven trade union representatives to advise on State rules under the Labour Codes

22 October 2026

The Kerala government decided on 22 October 2026 to form a special committee, including trade union representatives, to examine the implementation of the Labour Codes. The decision came at a meeting chaired by Chief Minister V D Satheesan at the Secretariat, attended by Labour Minister Bindu Krishna and office-bearers of 22 trade unions. The Labour Department Secretary will be convenor and the Law Department Additional Secretary a member, with seven trade union representatives and Labour Department officials. The committee must report within 10 days of its formation. Unions may propose amendments to the draft prepared in 2021, and the State will ask the Centre to lower the worker threshold in the Codes.

Trade unions at the meeting: 22 Union representatives on the committee: 7 Report due: 10 days

Why it matters for exams: Labour is in the Concurrent List, so each State frames its own rules under the central Labour Codes.

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22 October 2026 Source: Information and Public Relations Department, Kerala

In plain words

Labour Codes The four central labour codes on wages, industrial relations, social security and occupational safety — Four central laws that consolidated older labour statutes; States frame their own rules under them.