Labour codes, jobs top priority: New Labour Minister Bhupender Yadav

The roll out of the four labour codes at the earliest to enhance ease of doing business in the country and a big push to job creation will be the top priority of the new labour and employment minister Bhupender Yadav, who took charge from Santosh Kumar Gangwar on Thursday.

“The minister, after taking over charge on Thursday, took stock of ongoing, pending and burning issues in the labour ministry,” a labour ministry statement said soon after Yadav took charge.

He has also directed all the senior officers to openly share and discuss with him any new ideas that come to their mind, so that suitable policies and schemes can be devised and implemented for millions of workers, both in the organised and unorganised sectors, the ministry said .


The Centre is ready with the rules for the four codes, passed by the Parliament last year, but is waiting for states to finalise those in their domain to avoid any legal void once the codes are fully implemented.

Yadav, who is a Supreme Court lawyer, has chaired several crucial parliamentary committees and is currently the chairman of Rajya Sabha Select Committee on Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2019. Born in Ajmer, Rajasthan in 1969, he is a member of parliament in the Rajya Sabha representing the state of Rajasthan since 2012. He was the chairman of the joint committee on Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2015.