INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS CODE LAW MANUAL BY TAXMANN PUBLICATION -2026

Industrial Relations Code Law Manual is Taxmann’s authoritative single-volume working reference on India’s industrial relations statute as it now operates in practice. The 2026 Edition is built around the editorial position that the Industrial Relations Code 2020 must be read as a system: the statute together with the rules made under it, the Model Standing Orders adopted under it, the transitional instruments, the implementation notifications and the cross-Code compliance machinery that surrounds it. The Manual brings all of these into one volume and arranges them so the reader can move between them in the order their work actually requires—concordance lookup, section text, editorial restatement, supporting case law, applicable rule, prescribed form, jurisdictional notification, FAQ, compliance checklist—without leaving the book.

The Manual also incorporates the Industrial Relations (Central) Rules 2026, the Model Standing Orders 2026 and a cluster of further designation, delegation and recovery notifications under the Code; this Edition is the first to carry the Code with that full implementation machinery in place.

The Manual is built for the reader who works with the Industrial Relations Code as operative law and needs the supporting apparatus alongside the statutory text:

• HR, Industrial Relations and Compliance Heads in factories, mines, plantations, large-format service-sector establishments and Central-Sphere PSUs who have to reconfigure their standing orders, retrenchment processes, recognition protocols and dispute-resolution workflows under the new regime