Union Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya has urged all political parties to cooperate with the government in its labour reforms initiatives that will ease the process of doing business. Talking to reporters in New Delhi on Friday, Mr Dattatreya said, government wants to rationalise labour laws and these laws are in the interest of workers and will protect their rights. He said, the purpose of this is employment generation and ease of doing business.<br/><br/>As part of legislative reforms of labour laws, Mr Dattatreya said his ministry was working to amalgamate 44 central labour laws into four codes in order to simplify them. The codes would relate to wages, industrial relations, social security and safety.<br/><br/>The legislations that the Ministry plans to table in Parliament include Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012, and Payment of Bonus (Amendment) Bill, 2015, which have already been approved by the Cabinet.