Retrenchment Threshold of 300 Workers: What It Means for Foreign-Owned Manufacturing Units in India (2026)
The retrenchment threshold of 300 workers is among the most consequential changes in Indian labour law for overseas manufacturers. Before the Industrial Relations Code, 2020 (IR Code), any factory with 100 or more workers needed government permission to lay off, retrench or close. Now that bar sits at 300. For foreign companies, global startups, NRI […]