Compliance Calendar under India's New Labour Codes — track important compliance deadlines and obligations under India's new labour codes. Key compliance items organised by code with form numbers, due dates and applicability details.
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Under the four labour codes, only a handful of obligations sit on fixed calendar dates — monthly EPF/ESI by the 15th, monthly wages by the 7th, the principal employer's annual return on 1 February, the contractor's half-yearly return by 30 January and 30 July, and the aggregator self-assessment by 30 June. Everything else is event-driven: registration, notices of change or closure, standing orders, accident reporting, gratuity and maternity payouts, and BOCW cess all run from a trigger, not a date. Practically, that means you track a small recurring set plus a checklist of triggers per establishment — and you re-check thresholds (10, 20, 50, 100, 300 workers) whenever headcount moves.
Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 — registration, work notices, accident reporting and contract labour licensing.
Application for Registration of Establishment (other than factory, mine, plantation or building and other construction work)
Notice of change in employer of an establishment (other than a factory, mine, plantation, or building and other construction work)
Notice of commencement or cessation of operation of an establishment
Application for closure of establishment (other than factory, mine, plantation and building and other construction work)
Notice of commencement of work on a building or other construction work (issued to Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator and Gram Panchayat / Municipality by the employer)
Annual Return to be submitted by Principal Employer engaging contract labour
Notice of accident in an establishment, where the accident causes death or bodily injury which prevents the worker from working for a period of 48 hours or more immediately following the accident
Notice of an accident in an establishment, where accident causes bodily injury by reason of which the person injured is prevented from working for a period of 48 hours or less immediately following the accident
Application for grant of license to a Contractor employing contract labour
Application for renewal of license to a Contractor employing contract labour
Half-yearly return to be submitted by a contractor employing contract labour
The rules under all four central labour codes have been notified and the codes are in force — establishments should be tracking compliance under them now.
Due dates and prescribed forms can differ by state, because each state notifies its own rules under the codes.
Gig and platform worker compliances (aggregator registration, contribution self-assessment) remain subject to change as the relevant schemes are notified.
This is general information, not legal advice. Verify each item against the applicable central and state notifications, and take counsel's view before you act.
Which code applies at which headcount? What changes when a state notifies its own rules? Do gig-worker obligations bite yet? Those and more are answered in our FAQ library — or ask Complyuva AI from the bubble on this page.
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General guidance only. Due dates, prescribed forms and thresholds vary by state notification under each code — verify against the current central and state rules, and take counsel's view, before filing or acting.
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