Contents of the Industrial Relations Code

The Industrial Relations Code, 2020

Section 71. Procedure for retrenchment

In force since 21 Nov 2025Chapter IX — Lay-off, Retrenchment and Closure

Official text

Where any worker in an industrial establishment who is a citizen of India, is to be retrenched and he belongs to a particular category of workers in that establishment, then, in the absence of any agreement between the employer and the worker in this behalf, the employer shall ordinarily retrench the worker who was the last person to be employed in that category, unless for reasons to be recorded the employer retrenches any other worker.

Source: The Industrial Relations Code, 2020, Act No. 35 of 2020 — Gazette of India, p. 33 of the PDF. Open our copy at p. 33 · official download · all sources

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Compliance obligations under this provision

Commencement In force since 21 Nov 2025

Notification wording (1)
  • S.O. 5320(E), in force from 21 Nov 2025: “the Central Government hereby appoints the 21st day of November, 2025 as the date on which the provisions of the said Code, shall come into force”