India's New Labor Codes: Essential Compliance and Risk Mitigation for U.S. Multinationals
Includes a Live Web Event on 01/28/2026 at 12:00 PM (EST)
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A sweeping overhaul of India’s employment law landscape is underway, with immediate relevance for U.S. multinationals and their India operations. The November 2025 rollout represents a major regulatory inflection point, while generating substantial uncertainty. Media coverage has been uneven, state-level timelines vary, and many organizations are still assessing what compliance actually requires in practice.
This session will cut through the noise and focus on what matters most for corporate legal teams:
- Understanding India’s four Labor Codes now in force, bringing together 29 legacy labor statutes into a single, modernized compliance framework.
- What implementation really looks like on the ground: Including HR process redesign, documentation updates, compliance audits, and dispute-management mechanics under the new regime.
- Operational and financial impacts for employers, from payroll restructuring and social security contributions to contractor oversight, workforce planning, and risk allocation.
- The transition support organizations will need, particularly multi-state employers, and companies relying heavily on contractors, staffing vendors, or gig-economy platforms.
- How to navigate the interim period while state rules remain in flux, and what uneven or staggered adoption means for legal exposure and compliance strategy.
Our objective to provide clear and actionable guidance so India operations can move through this transition with minimal disruption.
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LockedAnshul Prakash
Partner, Employment Labour and Benefits Practice
Khaitan & Co (Mumbai)
Anshul is a Partner at Khaitan & Co and leads the Employment, Labour and Benefits (ELB) practice of the Firm from its Mumbai office.
Anshul and the ELB practice under his leadership have won several awards and recognitions over the years being ranked Tier
1 across league tables (including the Labour & Employment Law Firm of the Year award at Legal Era Indian Legal Awards 2021 and 2022). Individually, Anshul has been recognized as amongst the Top 10 Influential Employment Lawyers by Business Today (2023), Distinguished Practitioner (Labour & Employment) by Asialaw in 2025, awarded Legal One Stellar Accolade 2025, ranked by Human Resource Association of India amongst Top 50 under 50 HR Leaders (for 2023 and 2025), Labour & Employment Lawyer of the Year 2023 by Legal Era, Leading Individual Lawyer (Labour & Employment) by Legal Era for the years 2021 to 2024, as well as Top Individual Lawyer (Labour & Employment) by Forbes India Legal Power list for 2021 and 2025. He has also been recognized amongst ALB India’s Super 50 Lawyers in 2021 and 2022, besides being recognized by BW Legal World among Top 40 Under 40 “Finest Lawyers” & “Legal Eagles” of the Indian Legal Ecosystem and honorably ranked and highly recommended by Chambers & Partners Asia Pacific, Legal 500 Asia Pacific (Leading Individual Practitioner) and Law Profiles (Client Service Excellence in Labour & Employment).
Anshul exclusively advises several prominent domestic and international clients on full suite of contentious and non
contentious employment and labour law related matters concerning employee documentation and policies, ethics and compliance, workplace strategies, workforce management including outsourcing and secondment, social security, equity and non-equity based benefits and incentives, industrial relations including trade union strategies, transition due to business transfers, workplace harassment & discrimination, structuring benefits & incentives, health & safety, internal inquiries, white collar investigations, employee communication, staff and management trainings and representation before labour and other statutory authorities.
Anshul is also widely regarded for his sharp, business-friendly and pragmatic expertise in advising clients on the now effective Labour Codes, including strategic implementation, compliance readiness, impact assessment, and policy transition under the emerging employment laws landscape in India.
Anshul also leads the Firm’s thought leadership initiative on advocacy & knowledge sharing in employment and labour law space and actively shares insights on evolving jurisprudence in the employment & labour law space in several industry publications, reputed print media and public speaking events organized by industry bodies including CII, HRFI, ASSOCHAM, IFCCI, IGCCI, ICSI amongst others.
Deepak Kumar
Partner, Employment, Labour & Benefits
Khaitan & Co (Mumbai)
Deepak Kumar is a Partner in the ELB practice at Khaitan & Co, based in Mumbai. With nearly two decades of experience, he is recognised for his deep expertise across the full spectrum of employment and labour law, both contentious and advisory.
Deepak regularly advises multinational corporations and Indian conglomerates on workforce restructuring, employment litigation strategy, industrial relations, benefits rationalisation, business entry and exit planning, employee transfers arising from M&A transactions, and internal organisational re-alignments. His practice includes extensive experience in handling complex separation exercises, closure planning, downsizing programmes, workforce transitions, and senior management exits. He brings a commercially grounded and solutions-oriented approach to navigating the regulatory, operational, and stakeholder sensitivities inherent in employment-law-heavy transactions.
He has advised several marquee clients, including global banks, technology companies, FMCG giants, pharmaceutical multinationals, logistics operators, financial services institutions, and professional services organisations on end-to-end restructuring, India entry strategy, cross-border employee transfers, compensation structuring, and employment compliance across multiple jurisdictions.
His notable engagements include guiding major global brands through large-scale workforce transitions, branch closures, strategic reorganisations, and multi-stage reduction-in-force programmes.
Kruthi Murthy
Principal Associate, Employment, Labour and Benefits
Khaitan & Co (Singapore)
Kruthi N Murthy is a Principal Associate in the ELB practice group of Khaitan & Co, with over 8 years of experience.
She has advised several prominent domestic and international clients on full suite of contentious and non-contentious employment law and related matters including but not limited to senior executive employment documentation and exits, workforce management, social security compliance, employee transition due to business transfers, workplace harassment and discrimination, internal inquiries, workforce restructuring, developing workplace codes of conduct, and internal investigations.
Her expertise encompasses the full spectrum of employment law, with a particular focus on designing, reviewing, and auditing frameworks that prevent, detect, and address harassment, discrimination, and workplace abuse. She regularly advises on governance structures, internal control mechanisms, ethics frameworks, and employee well-being strategies, ensuring alignment with both regulatory requirements and international best practices. Her work also includes implementing leadership and workforce sensitization programs across multicultural environments.
Kruthi’s experience spans sectors including retail, technology, manufacturing, and services, with a strong focus on multicultural and gender-diverse environments. Kruthi combines legal acumen with a practical lens, enabling clients to translate compliance mandates into sustainable, ethical workplace practices.
