The Karnataka government has not yet set minimum wages for over 1.77 crore workers across 84 scheduled employments. Trade unions have urged the government to implement fresh wage revisions based on clauses in the new Labour Codes. Legally, the state must revise wages at least once every five years, but it has been nine years since the last update. Though draft wage revisions were notified in April 2025, no final decision has been made. The final call awaits Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. A meeting between the Labour Department and the Chief Minister was canceled but is expected to be rescheduled soon. The wage revision process started in 2022 but has stalled. In April 2025, draft wages ranged from about ₹19,000 to ₹31,000 per month. Employers opposed this and approached the Karnataka High Court, but they did not get relief. The Centre introduced four Labour Codes in November, which employers claimed postpone wage hikes. However, trade unions counter this. The Joint Committee of Trade Unions (JCTU), representing 11 unions, wrote to CM Siddaramaiah on December 24, 2025: "The Labour Codes do not put a hold on the revision of minimum wages in Karnataka." The JCTU highlighted that the Codes do not erase existing rights or ongoing legal cases. They cited Sections 68 and 69 of the Code on Wages and Section 6 of the General Clauses Act to argue that the state can proceed with wage revisions without delay. Karnataka's minimum wage revision has been stuck for over three years. The BJP government’s first attempt in 2022 to raise wages by 5% to 10% was blocked by the High Court. The current draft follows Supreme Court guidelines from the Reptakos Brett case but faces employer opposition. As of January 10, 2026, the government is yet to make a final call on this critical labour issue.