"Months after note ban, Centre revives changes to labour law that will affect over 50% of factories", 21 Feb 2017

...[T]he Ministry of Labour and Employment circulated a two-page note among central trade unions as a fresh proposal to push amendments to the Factories Act. The government argues that these amendments are necessary to create new jobs and make it easy for businesses to grow...trade unions and workers’ groups, whose representatives...have opposed the proposals. They say that these proposed changes, which push more than half of all factories outside the purview of any regulations...The unions say the implementation of labour laws in India has already been weakened by successive governments over the years, and the new changes fail to provide for decent work conditions...The Act also defines minimum safety, health and welfare measures for workers that must be followed by a unit defined as a factory.