Which significant change related to women’s safety did the new Labour Codes bring when implemented in November 2025?
Night-shift permission with safeguards
India's four new Labour Codes — the Code on Wages, 2019; the Industrial Relations Code, 2020; the Code on Social Security, 2020; and the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions (OSH) Code, 2020 — were brought into force from 21 November 2025.
A key equality-and-safety change is that women are now permitted to work in all establishments, on all types of work, at night (7 p.m.–6 a.m.), provided the employer secures the woman's written consent and puts in place safeguards such as safe transport, adequate lighting, sufficient number of women workers, women wardens and grievance redressal mechanisms.
This overturns earlier factory-law provisions that generally barred women from night shifts. It is not a prohibition, not an exemption from maternity benefits, and not an early-retirement rule — options 1, 3 and 4 are factually incorrect.
Hence, the answer is night-shift permission with safeguards.
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