Compliance domain
Four Codes, thirty-six sets of state rules, one payroll
11,200+ obligations across states
maintained across Central, state and municipal levels
Applies to
Every employer, from a 12-person office to a 6,000-worker plant
- 11,200+
- labour obligations including state variants
- 36
- state and UT regimes maintained separately
- 2x yearly
- minimum wage revision tracking per state
What the domain contains
The obligation groups we maintain
Each of these decomposes into individual obligations with an actor, an action, a trigger and a deadline, cited to the section or rule it comes from.
Registration and licensing
Shops and Establishments registration per premises, factory licence per site, contract labour licence per principal employer and contractor combination.
Wage and payment obligations
Minimum wages notified per state, per skill category and revised half-yearly; timely payment; the revised wage definition that changes PF and gratuity bases.
Statutory contributions
PF, ESI, professional tax and labour welfare fund — each with different applicability thresholds, rates and due dates, several of them state-specific.
Registers and returns
Muster roll, wage register, leave register, overtime register and annual returns, in state-prescribed formats that have not converged despite the Codes.
Workplace committees
Internal Committee under POSH, safety committee, works committee, canteen committee and grievance redressal committee, each with composition and meeting frequency rules.
Contract and gig workforce
Principal employer liability for contractor compliance, and the new aggregator contribution obligations for gig and platform workers.
Why it goes wrong
The failure modes we see most often
The Codes did not remove the state layer
Consolidation happened at Central level. State rules under the Codes are being notified separately and diverge on registers, thresholds and returns — so the promised simplification has not reached the ground.
Principal employer liability is unavoidable
You are liable for your contractor’s PF and ESI defaults. Most organisations discover the gap during an inspection, not during vendor onboarding.
Minimum wage revisions are silent and frequent
States revise notified minimum wages twice yearly by category. A missed revision produces underpayment across thousands of workers before anyone notices.
Coverage
Principal legislation in this domain
A representative list. State variants of each are maintained separately, because they differ in ways that matter operationally.
- Code on Wages, 2019
- OSH Code, 2020
- Code on Social Security, 2020
- Industrial Relations Code, 2020
- Shops & Establishments Acts (36 variants)
- POSH Act, 2013
- Factories Act, 1948
Explore the full library in the regulation explorer, or see the compliance calendar for what falls due next.
Across industries
This domain does not care what you manufacture
Domain obligations apply by activity, headcount, turnover and location — not by sector code. What changes between industries is how much of the domain lands on you, and which sectoral rules stack on top.
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The rest of the stack
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The obligations that attach to the entity, whatever it makes
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DPDP, CERT-In and a sectoral layer on top
3,300+ obligationsTax, GST & Customs
One company, many GSTINs, and a re-sectioned Income-tax Act
2,800+ obligationsProduct Standards & Quality
QCOs, labelling and the six-month window before your product is illegal
5,400+ obligationsSectoral Licensing
The licence conditions nobody reads after the licence is granted
900+ obligationsCompetition & Consumer
Dark patterns, deal value thresholds and endorser liability
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