The All India Insurance Employees’ Association (AIIEA) has condemned the move of the Central government to enforce the Labour Codes, calling them ‘undemocratic, anti-workers and pro-employer’.
“These codes are a devastating attack on the lives, rights and dignity of workers, threatening to erode the hard-won protections for generations to come,” AIIEA general secretary Srikanta Mishra said in a stament on Monday.
He said that the Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions has called upon the workers across the sectors to join a nationwide action of resistance on November 26, alongside the peasants’ movement led by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), demanding the scrapping of the Labour Codes and withdrawal of the draft Shram Shakti Niti 2025.
The Centre notified four Labour Codes—Code on Wages (2019), Industrial Relations code (2020), Code on Social Security (2020) and the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions (OSHWC) Code (2020)—on November 21, despite protests by the trade unions and independent federations like AIIEA.
“The arbitrary and undemocratic notification of the Labour Codes is a blot on the democratic ethos of the country, amounting to an attack on the rights of the workers,” he said.
The joint platform of ten central trade unions, with several independent industrial federations, had been opposing the new Labour Codes from the moment they were enacted.
Despite widespread resistance, the Union government—emboldened by its electoral victory in Bihar—proceeded to enforce the four Labour Codes. The trade unions had repeatedly urged the government to convene the long-neglected Indian Labour Conference (not held since 2015) and to withdraw the codes. However, the government has remained unmoved.
The AIIEA has called upon insurance employees to join the growing protests against the Labour Codes by holding gate meetings and demonstrations during lunch recess on November 26.
Published – November 25, 2025 10:09 am IST
