This document explores the historical evolution and recent, historic overhaul of India?s labour regulatory framework. Rooted in the constitutional promise of a welfare state, India's traditional labour system grew into a complex, paradoxical web of over 200 central and state laws that overprotected workers on paper while leaving the vast unorganized workforce vulnerable in reality. To rectify this, the government consolidated 29 major labour laws into four streamlined Labour Codes: The Code on Wages, 2019, The Industrial Relations Code, 2020, The Occupational Safety, Health & Working Conditions Code, 2020 and The Code on Social Security, 2020. These reforms aim to balance ease of doing work through reduced bureaucratic burdens and digitized compliance with an expanded definition of worker welfare. Crucially, the new framework, alongside digital interventions like the e-Shram portal and the One Nation, One Ration Card (ONORC) scheme, extends critical social safety nets, food security and workplace protections to historically "unseen" segments, including gig, platform, unorganized and migrant workers.