Gig Workers Act Comes into Effect in Karnataka
New Delhi, May 28, 2025: After the Governor's assent on 27th May 2025, the Government of Karnataka has notified the Karnataka Platform based Gig Workers (Social Security and Welfare) Ordinance 2025.…
Gig Worker
Gig economy and mental health
After the visitors had finished their dinner at around 10.30 pm, one of them suddenly realized that he had forgotten to bring some essential medications. At this point, an app…
All-India Shramik Yatra: A country wide journey to reach informal workers
Informal workers—street vendors, domestic helpers, platform (gig) workers, construction labour, home based workers, sex workers, fisherfolk, scheme and health workers, forest workers, agricultural labour, garment workers and countless others—are the…
Reality of Gig Workers in a booming Gig Economy
Gig economy has become an integral part of our daily lives particularly in large cities and metros of Urban India. Services related to transportation, food delivery and urban services have…
Rajasthan Law Brings Wider Hope for Gig Workers
In recent years the number of gig workers has increased rapidly in most countries. While the need has been for ensuring better social security and welfare benefits to more workers,…
Rajathan Passes Law for the Social Security of Gig Workers
After the passage of the historic Rajasthan Minimum Guaranteed Income Law on 22nd July 2023, we write to you to share yet another significant development from the State. The Rajasthan…
Rajasthan Law to Help Gig Workers Should be Widely Welcomed
The Rajasthan state government is in the process of enacting a welfare law for gig workers which should be widely welcomed. Basically this law proposes that a one per cent…
The Gig Worker
I usually use Uber Bikes, a bike-hailing service from Uber to get around short distances in my colony area… may be a maximum of 5 kilometers or so. Apart from…
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