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Setting Up A GCC In India: Managing Employment And IPR Risks
India has emerged as the global hub for capability centres, but establishing one requires navigating complex employment laws, intellectual property protections, and data governance frameworks. Foreign businesses must understand how workforce structuring, restrictive covenants, IP ownership, and compliance obligations intersect to protect their investments and mitigate legal risks in this rapidly evolving landscape.
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Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan
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Regulatory Compliance Newsletter | July 2026
This comprehensive newsletter examines recent regulatory developments across India's labour, corporate, environmental, and industry-specific legal frameworks. From new contribution rates for pension and provident funds to groundbreaking rules on electric vehicles and medical device software, the update covers critical compliance changes affecting businesses and employers. The newsletter also details state-level labour code implementations, amendments to e-commerce FDI policy, and environmental regulations t
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Dentons Link Legal
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India's Labour Codes Enter The Compliance Phase: Key Implications Of The Central Rules, 2026
India's labour law reforms entered a significant phase with the enforcement of the Code on Wages, 2019, the Code on Social Security, 2020, the Industrial Relations Code, 2020, and the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 (collectively, the “Labour Codes”) from November 21, 2025. Although the Labour Codes came into force in November 2025, their implementation remained incomplete in the absence of the corresponding subordinate legislation.
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Clasis Law
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Retirement, Superannuation & Pensions

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EPF Compliance In The Gig Economy: Is India’s New Social Security Framework Enough?
India’s gig economy is expanding rapidly, but gig workers do not automatically receive the same provident fund protection as traditional employees. With the Code on Social Security, 2020 now in force and the Social Security (Central) Rules, 2026 notified, has India finally addressed the social-security gap or has it simply created a new, scheme-based framework that still falls short of EPF protection?
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King, Stubb & Kasiva
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Social Security Pact: Relief For Indian Workers In The UK
For years, Indian professionals on temporary assignments in the UK faced a quiet but costly problem: paying into two social security systems for the same job, with no additional pension benefit to show for it. That changed on 15 July 2026, when the India-UK Double Contributions Convention (DCC) came into force alongside the broader Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), finally addressing what officials on both sides had long acknowledged as a sunk cost for mobile talent.
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King, Stubb & Kasiva
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