Uttar Pradesh – All 4 Final Labour Codes/Rules Published

The Uttar Pradesh has released the final rules on the Code of Wages and OSH&WC, 2020.

Please find attached the official notification:

1.Uttar Pradesh Code on Wages Rules, 2026.

• Notification No. 1377/XXXVI-03-2026-1901341, dated 12 Aug 2026
• In force: From date of gazette publication
• Supersedes: UP Payment of Wages Rules 1936; UP Minimum Wages Rules 1952; UP Code on Wages Rules 2021

Minimum wages (Ch. II)

• Fixed on a per-day basis; hourly = daily ÷ 8, monthly = daily × 26 (round up at ½ or more). Not applicable to State Government employees.
• Criteria (Rule 4): 3 consumption units per family; 2,700 calories/unit/day; 66 m cloth/year; rent at 10% of food + clothing; fuel/electricity/misc at 20% of MW; education/medical/recreation/contingencies at 25% of MW.
• Norms: geographical area, experience, and four skill levels (unskilled/semi-skilled/skilled/highly skilled). A technical committee chaired by the Labour Commissioner advises on skill categorisation; Schedule-A lists occupations by category (115 unskilled, 131 semi-skilled, 297 skilled, 106 highly skilled) and can be amended by notification.
• VDA revised twice a year — computed before 1 April and before 1 October — on CPI-IW (Labour Bureau).

Hours, rest days, wage period

• Normal working day 8 hours (daily-rated); otherwise capped at 48 hours/week. Wage period not more than one month.
• Weekly rest: Sunday in a six-day week; Saturday and Sunday in a shorter week (employer may fix other days with notice). No substitution that results in more than 10 consecutive days without a whole-day rest.
• Work on a rest day → overtime rate (not less than 2× normal) plus a paid substituted rest day. Where the daily rate is derived by dividing monthly wages by 26, no separate rest-day wage is payable.
• Shifts crossing midnight: rest day = 24 consecutive hours from shift end.

Deductions, fines, advances (Ch. III)

• Deductions above 50% of wages carried forward; recovery capped at 50% in any month.
• Fines: list of acts/omissions submitted in duplicate to the regional Addl/Deputy Labour Commissioner for approval; approved list displayed at the main entrance (English + Hindi); 7-day show-cause to the employee; if no reply, fine imposed and intimated within 15 days. Proceeds usable only for approved welfare schemes.
• Deductions for absence or damage/loss follow the same 7-day / 15-day sequence, recorded in Form-I.
• Advances recovered in instalments, not exceeding 50% of wages in a wage period.

Registers, wage slip, notices

• Form-I (wages/OT/fines/deductions), Form-II (employee register), Form-XII (nomination), Form-XIII (attendance-cum-muster roll); physical or electronic; preserved 5 years.
• Wage slip in Form-IX, electronic or physical, on or before payment.
• Display notice at every entry/exit of each unit, in languages understood by the majority, readable from 10 metres — covering MW rates, weekly/paid rest days, hours, OT, breaks, wage payment date/time, wage period, and the Inspector-cum-Facilitator and s.45 Authority details.
• Annual return: filed electronically in the form prescribed under the OSH&WC Rules (i.e. no separate wages return).

Boards, claims, enforcement

• State Advisory Board chaired by the Labour Minister; at least 12 employer and 12 employee members; independent members capped at one-third; at least one-third women; two-year term, maximum two terms.
• Claims: single group application (Form-III) before the Authority (regional Addl/Deputy LC); ex-parte if the employer doesn’t appear. Appeal in Form-VII — an employer’s appeal is admitted only after depositing the claim amount.
• Inspection scheme framed by the Labour Commissioner; complaint-based inspections need prior written LC approval (for Commission/child-labour/bonded-labour/fatal-accident complaints: regional ALC/DLC approval with ex-post-facto LC approval within 72 hours).
• Penalty officer: Gazetted Officer not below Under Secretary or DLC (pay matrix 11). Compounding at 50% of the maximum fine, payable within 30 days.
• Undisbursed dues: nomination in Form-XII; unpaid amounts deposited with the regional ALC/DLC and, if unclaimed for 2 years, transferred to the UP Labour Welfare Fund.
• Principal employer must fund the contractor’s wage bill and pay minimum bonus if the contractor defaults (recoverable from the contractor).

Please find attached the official notification:

UP Code on Wages

2. The Uttar Pradesh Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Rules, 2026.

Notification No:  962/XXXVI-03-2026-1903305, dated 27 Aug 2026 (UP Extraordinary Gazette, same date)

Applies to: Factories, building and other construction workplaces, and all other establishments

Supersedes (8 sets): UP Contract Labour Rules 1975; UP Inter-State Migrant Workmen Rules 1983; UP Bidi & Cigar Workers Rules 1969; UP Factories Rules 1950; UP Factories (Welfare Officers) Rules 1955; UP Factories (Safety Officers) Rules 1984; UP BOCW Rules 2009; UP Code on OSH&WC Rules 2022

Registration (Ch. II) — Form-3 online on the Labour Department portal; certificate in Form-3(A).

Late application beyond the 60-day window attracts a 10% late fee; establishments already registered under a Central labour law must upload their particulars within 6 months of commencement; changes in ownership/particulars within 30 days; cancellation on closure only after all returns and dues are cleared with self-certification. Commencement/cessation notice in Form-5 within 30 days.

Hours and overtime (Ch. V)

• 48 hours/week; 10.5-hour spread-over (extendable to 12 by notification); 30-minute rest after 5 hours; total daily hours with OT capped at 10, spread-over 12.
• OT at twice the ordinary rate, paid at the end of the wage period; daily wage = 1/26 of monthly; 15–30 minutes rounds to half an hour, over 30 to a full hour.
• OT ceiling 115 hours/quarter (144 with State approval); written consent, OT slip in duplicate, no more than 5 consecutive OT days.
• Weekly rest with substitution (max 10 consecutive days); compensatory holidays limited to two a week; State may notify 8 paid holidays a year.
• Part-time factory workers may take double employment in notified categories, with separate attendance and pro-rata benefits.

Records and returns (Ch. VI)

• Registers electronic or manual; preserved 5 years (medical records 7). Leave Book (Form-14), Leave with Wages Register (Form-15), attendance/worker register (Form-6), accident register (Form-16), nomination (Form-19); OT register and wage slips follow the Wages Rules formats, with a separate OT slip.
• Annual Return in Form-17 by 31 January; MAH installations also file a half-yearly return (Form-18) by 31 July.
• Abstract of the Code (at least 2,000 words) displayed in Hindi and English; painted signboard at the main entrance with registration/licence number, establishment name and address, employer and manager names.

Safety governance (Ch. III–IV)

• Accident notice: fatal — immediate notice and Form-10 within 12 hours (plus DM/SDO, police, family); injury with 48+ hours’ disablement — Form-10 within 12 hours after the 48 hours end; dangerous occurrence — Form-11 within 12 hours. Site not to be disturbed before the inspector or police arrive.
• Safety Committee where 250+ employees, dangerous operations, hazardous processes or MAH.
• Safety Officer: factories with 500+ workers, hazardous-process factories and BOCW sites with 250+, MAH installations and sulphuric acid plants; additional officers scale with headcount; appointment intimated within 7 days.
• Third-party auditors (s.37) in two streams — Labour Law Auditor (LLB + 7 years, or retired ALC/DLC/ALC with 5 years) and Technical OSH Auditor — empanelled for up to 2 years, age cap 65.
• Inspector-cum-Facilitator may issue improvement notices/prohibition orders (Form-20); unresolved non-compliance moves to compounding or prosecution sanction.

Women (Ch. VIII) — Night work (before 6 a.m. / after 7 p.m.) only with written consent, employer-paid transport, supper, supervision, CCTV on routes to amenities, at least four women per shift/department, 7-day advance intimation to the inspector for verification, monthly reports, a POSH mechanism, daily-replenished sanitary napkins, and displayed helpline numbers. Hazardous work permitted with consent; pregnant and nursing women exempt.

Contract labour (Ch. IX, Part I)

Security deposit ₹1,000 per worker. Application in Form-25 with the principal employer’s certificate (Form-26); licence in Form-27, deemed granted if the Janhit Guarantee Adhiniyam timeline lapses. Renewal window 30–90 days before expiry (late renewal +25%). Wages by bank/electronic transfer only, with a cash exception of at most two months in the presence of the PE’s representative; contractor to share wage registers with the PE within 7 days of payment; work orders intimated within 15 days (Form-28); crèche where 30+ women are employed; EPF/ESIC membership mandatory where applicable; core-activity disputes go to the s.57 officer via Form-32; appeals lie to the Labour Commissioner.

Other parts — Inter-state migrants get to-and-fro journey allowance after 180 days’ service (and every six months thereafter), PDS access and a toll-free helpline. Factory licences (Form-45/46) carry a fee matrix by installed power and headcount (₹500 to ₹38,000), run one year initially and renew for up to 10 years at a time (late renewal +25%; amendment ₹100; transfer ₹1,000). Penalty appeals lie to the Labour Commissioner within 60 days with a 5% fee; compounding amounts are payable within 15 days of notice. Common licences (s.119) are decided within 45 days on a committee’s 15-day recommendation.

THE UTTAR PRADESH OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY, HEALTH AND WORKING CONDITIONS RULES, 2026

3. The Uttar Pradesh Code on Social Security Rules, 2026

The Uttar Pradesh Government has notified the Uttar Pradesh Code on Social Security Rules, 2026 in the UP Extraordinary Gazette dated 27 August 2026 (Notification No. 1431/XXXVI-3-2026-1399661, Labour Section-3), under Sections 154(1) and 156(1) of the Code on Social Security, 2020. The rules are in force from the date of publication. The draft had been published on 10 March 2026 for objections and suggestions. The notification runs to 179 pages (Hindi, with English translation) and contains 97 rules and over 40 forms.

What they replace: seven sets of State rules stand superseded — the UP Workmen’s Compensation Rules, 1975; UP Workmen’s Compensation (Occupational Diseases) Rules, 1964; UP Maternity Benefit Rules, 1983; UP Payment of Gratuity Rules, 1975; UP Building and Other Construction Workers (RE&CS) Rules, 2009; UP Unorganised Workers Social Security Rules, 2016; and the UP Code on Social Security Rules, 2021.

Key points for employers:

• Gratuity nominations (Rule 52): Nomination in Form XI, in duplicate. Existing employees with one year’s service must submit within 90 days of commencement; others within 30 days of completing one year; fixed-term employees within one month of joining. The employer verifies the service particulars and returns the attested duplicate within 30 days.
• Gratuity claims (Rule 53): Application in Form XII within 30 days of gratuity becoming payable (plain-paper applications also accepted). The employer must respond in Form XIII within 15 days — admitting the claim with a payment date not later than 30 days from the application, or rejecting it with reasons (copy to the competent authority and DG, Labour Bureau). Payment by demand draft or bank credit, with intimation to the competent authority. Fixed-term employees qualify after one year of service, at 15 days’ wages per completed year.
• Gratuity authorities (Rules 54–58): Competent authority — Assistant Labour Commissioner (disputes in Form XIV within one year; disposal within six months, extendable by three). Appellate authority — Additional/Deputy Labour Commissioner. Recovery applications in Form XVII.
• Maternity benefit (Rules 59–60): Complaints to the Inspector-cum-Facilitator in Form XVIII; where benefit is found to be wrongly withheld, payment is to be directed within 45 days. Appeals lie to the Regional Additional/Deputy Labour Commissioner in Form XIX, to be decided within three months.
• Employee’s compensation (Rules 61–78): In fatal cases, ₹25,000 towards funeral expenses is payable to the eldest surviving dependant, over and above the compensation deposited (auto-revised if the Centre enhances the amount). Notice book of accidents in Form XX for notified classes of employers; employer’s statement in fatal accidents in Form XXII; memoranda of agreement in Forms XXIII–XXV.
• BOCW cess (Rules 79–80): Interest applies if cess is not paid within 60 days of completion of work or the timeline in the assessment order. Applications for local-authority approval must carry a demand draft for cess on the estimated cost; for projects running over a year, cess is payable annually within 60 days of each year-end. Appeals in Form XXXVII(A) within 90 days, with a fee of 0.5% of the disputed amount (maximum ₹25,000), to be disposed of within 60 days; no further appeal lies.
• Records, notices and returns (Rules 88–90): Registers as per the Code on Wages, 2019 and its rules, preserved for five years from the last entry; wage slips in Form IX of the UP Code on Wages Rules, 2026; a register of women employees in Form XXXVI; BOCW employers to keep a record of cess paid in Form XXXVII(B). All notices to be displayed at a conspicuous place. A Unified Annual Return in Form XXXVIII is to be uploaded on the Labour Commissioner’s portal by 1 February each year, with a further return on sale, abandonment or discontinuance of the establishment.
• Inspection and compounding (Rules 85–91): A web-based inspection scheme under Section 122 is to be framed by the Labour Commissioner. For compoundable offences, a notice issues in Form XXXIX; the compounding amount must be deposited within 15 days, failing which prosecution follows.
• Vacancy reporting (Rules 92–93): Private establishments with 50 or more employees must report vacancies to the Career and Counselling Centre (regional) from a date to be notified — at least 40 days before the last date for applications — and file a yearly Employment Information Return (Form XLII) within 30 days of 31 March. Public-sector establishments are covered from commencement.
• Exemptions (Rules 94–95): The Board/Corporation must advise on Section 143 exemption applications within three months. Exempted PF/pension trusts must follow the prescribed trust-management conditions, and an exemption is deemed cancelled on merger, demerger, acquisition or similar change of legal status, requiring a fresh application.

Please find attached the official notification:

UP-SS-Code-Final

The Government of Uttar Pradesh has finalised the Uttar Pradesh Industrial Relations Rules, 2026 under section 99(1) of the Industrial Relations Code, 2020 , following the draft published on 10 March 2026 (No. 251/36-2-2026). The Code has applied across India since 21 November 2025 and the Central rules were notified on 8 May 2026; UP’s rules now put the State-level procedures, forms and timelines in place.

The 2026 Rules replace the UP Trade Union Regulation, 1927, the UP Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Rules, 1946, the Industrial Disputes (UP) Rules, 1976 and the UP Industrial Relations Rules, 2021. They run to 71 rules and 34 forms, extend to the whole State and take effect on publication in the Official Gazette. Filings are portal-first: notices, applications and reports go electronically, statutory registers and display boards must also be kept in electronic form, and every employer must print its e-mail ID or website on its letterhead.

What the rules require of employers

Trade union housekeeping

Registration is by Form III with a ₹100 fee; annual subscriptions are capped at ₹50/₹100 (unorganised) and ₹100/₹200 (organised) for ordinary and honorary members; audits are tiered by receipts; and the audited annual return (Form XIV) is due by 31 July. Changes in office-bearers go to the Regional Additional/Deputy Registrar in Form VIII, and appeals against refusal or cancellation of registration lie within 60 days.

Please find attached the official notification.

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