#DakshaMasterclass: Changing Labour Regulations In India [26th Aug]

2 weeks ago

Gig workers write to NHRC, demand paid leaves, health benefits

Hyderabad: Gig and platform workers, who form the backbone of India’s digital economy, continue to face challenges that compromise their rights, welfare, and dignity. Addressing these concerns, Shaik Salauddin, founder-president of the Telangana Gig and Platform Workers Union and national general secretary of the Indian Federation of App-Based Transport Workers, has called on the National Human Rights Commission to take …

India Workers Nhrc

3 months ago

Platform for protection

China Daily

Updated: 2024-10-08 09:51 Looking ahead Koh said that when the platform workers law comes into force on Jan 1, 2025, it will supersede any existing platform work agreements. Nominated MP Ong Hua Han cited locum nurses as an example of freelancers who are also subject to the management control of caregiving platforms. Koh said the government will consider taking a …

Platform Koh

5 months, 2 weeks ago

A case for regulating gig-based work

The Hindu

The Karnataka government’s intent to introduce a legislation for the welfare of gig workers is a welcome and necessary step. The first myth that aggregators sell to promote platform work is that they would have “no boss” and would be “partners” and “captains” — anything but workers. Karnataka’s draft Bill introduces provisions that mandate fair contracts, income security and the …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Cess Will be Charged from Customers, Not App Owners: Karnataka Minister on Gig Workers Bill

News 18

The Congress-led Karnataka government has introduced the draft of the Karnataka Platform-Based Gig Workers Bill 2024, which aims at providing social security and welfare measures for platform-based gig workers in the state. While many gig workers across the country have been seeking better working conditions, Karnataka, which has one of the largest numbers of gig workers in the country, has …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

[Advt.] Certificate Workshop On Labour Laws & POSH Act Practice Delivered By Leading Lawyers At Bettering Results: Enroll Now!

Live Law

Bettering Results has curated a two day Online Certificate Workshop on Labour Laws including PoSH Act Practice after several discussions & inputs from industry experts. Session 1: Key Labour Laws in India a) Contract Labour Act, 1970 b) The Factories Act, 1948 c) The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 d) The Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923 Session 2: Key Labour Laws in …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

The problem with the Karnataka gig workers Bill

The Hindu

Last month, Karnataka introduced a new Bill, called the draft Karnataka Platform-based Gig Workers Bill, 2024, seeking to provide social security and welfare measures for platform-based gig workers in the State. In the recent past, India has seen protests and agitations by gig workers on the issue of revenue sharing, working hours and various other working conditions and terms of …

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5 months, 4 weeks ago

India needs national legal, social security architecture for gig workers: Congress

The Hindu

Citing legislations by its State Governments to ensure justice for gig workers, the Congress on July 11 said India needs a national legal and social security architecture for such workers and hoped that the forthcoming Union Budget will take a step in that direction. Congress general secretary, in-charge communications, Jairam Ramesh said the Karnataka Platform-based Gig Workers Bill, 2024, is …

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6 months ago

Even the odd jobs: On the Karnataka Platform-based Gig Workers (Social Security and Welfare) Bill

The Hindu

For India’s gig workers, who are increasing in numbers but are perched precariously on the edge of the unregulated labour pool, the Karnataka Platform-based Gig Workers Bill, 2024, offers a welcome reprieve, but still stops short of providing them with the security of being employees. When app-based gig work was introduced a decade ago, courtesy ride-sharing and food delivery apps, …

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6 months ago

Gig Workers’ Bill: Unions demand tweaks in representation on board, funding pattern

The Hindu

Suggesting changes to the proposed Gig Workers Bill, likely to be introduced in the ensuing legislature session, trade unions in Karnataka have sought equal representation on the Gig Workers Welfare Board “in the true spirit and letter of tripartism”. The composition of the board should be split equally among representatives of workers, aggregators, and the government, and that the proposed …

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6 months ago

How Does Karnataka Aim To Protect Platform-Based Gig Workers? What’s In The Draft Bill?

News 18

After Rajasthan, Karnataka has become the second state to regulate the social security and welfare of platform-based gig workers by creation of a board, welfare fund and grievance cell. The Karnataka Platform Based Gig Workers Bill, 2024, which was published by the state government, is likely to be tabled in the Monsoon Session of the Assembly later this month. According …

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6 months ago

What does the Karnataka Bill promise gig workers? | Explained

The Hindu

The story so far: On June 29, the Karnataka government published the draft of the Karnataka Platform-based Gig Workers Bill, making it the second Indian State to initiate such a move, the first being Rajasthan. The Bill seeks to regulate the social security and welfare of platform-based gig workers in the State and is expected to be placed in the …

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6 months ago

GCC, startups emerge as major job creators in India in past five years

The Hindu

About eight crore new jobs were created in India in the past five years and the growth was driven by global capability centres and startups, Secretary to the Union Ministry of Labour and Employment Sumita Dawra said, citing the Periodic Labour Force Survey findings. The reforms includes decriminalisation of labour laws, increasing female workforce participation, social security and labour welfare …

India Labour Laws

6 months, 2 weeks ago

Unreserved, Yet Inaccessible: How Labour Laws Exclude Millions

News 18

I was associated with an academic institute that has multiple centres in different parts of India. But this closure underscores a broader point: West Bengal’s labour laws and overall environment have been deterrents to investing in West Bengal. After all, their combined membership hovers around 25 million, a stark contrast to India’s total labour force of approximately 480 million. While …

India Kolkata Trade Labour West Bengal Labour Laws Interests

9 months ago

Anti- Discrimination In Labour Laws

Live Law

Anti-discrimination laws in the realm of labour encompass legal provisions designed to prevent and proscribe discriminatory practises targeting employees or individuals specifically on the grounds of certain protected attributes. Conundrum Related To Equal Pay Equal Work In India, the issue of persistence of gender discrimination in India can be attributed to deeply ingrained social perceptions about women and the pervasive …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

Nirma University: Online Training Programme On "Legal Aspects Of Handling Contract Labour With Directives Of The Supreme Court” [April 8th -9th]

Live Law

Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad is organizing an Online Training Programme on "Legal Aspects of Handling Contract Labour with Directives of the Supreme Court” in Online Mode from April 8th to 9th. Ranked First in the West Zone ranking and 24th in the overall ranking in the 'Top Law School' category by the Business World, 2023 Ranked Twenty First …

Law Education India Contract Legal Labour University

11 months ago

Federal government contemplating changes to industrial relations laws, including a 'right to disconnect'

ABC

If you've ever found yourself replying to a 10pm email, or fielding a phone call from the boss during a Saturday afternoon barbecue, and wondered "should I be getting paid for this? The federal government is contemplating a range of new changes to industrial relations laws, including a 'right to disconnect', aimed at protecting workers who feel like work is …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Delivery agents of Swiggy, Zomato, cab drivers of Ola, Uber on strike today in Pune. Here's why

Hindustan Times

Cab and auto rickshaw drivers including those of Ola, Uber, delivery personnel working for firms including Swiggy, Zomato, Urban company in Maharashtra's Pune are observing a strike on Wednesday demanding organised labour laws in a bid to secure their rights. The demands, put forth by the committee ‘Indian Gig Workers Front’, include a demand from the Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Gig Workers’ Bill races to beat election season in Rajasthan

The Hindu

The Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government’s marquee legislation, the Rajasthan Platform Based Gig Workers Bill, 2023, which puts up stringent punitive provisions against errant aggregators, might not materialise before the elections in the State. EDITORIAL | Promising Bill: On the Rajasthan Platform-based Gig Workers Bill, 2023 It also has punitive provisions such as fines up to ten lakhs for the first …

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1 year, 3 months ago

HNLU Discussion On ‘Competition Law In Digital Economy - A Future Roadmap For India’

Live Law

The Research Centre for Consumer and Competition Laws of Hidayatullah National Law University hosted an online discussion on 30th of September, 2023 at 6.00 P.M. Mr. Toshit Shandilya, Partner, AZB & Partners delivered the address on the topic ‘Competition Law in Digital Economy - A Future Roadmap for India’. As technology continues to reshape various industries, questions arise about the …

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1 year, 3 months ago

The potential downside of the Rajasthan Gig Workers Law

Hindustan Times

Good news for Rajasthan's gig workers as the state has established a dedicated welfare board for their benefit. The recently passed legislation by the Rajasthan State Assembly intends to establish a welfare board and a registry of all gig workers, aggregators, and primary employers in the state who work with gig workers. A platform-based Gig Workers Welfare Cess will be …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Rajasthan’s Gig Workers Law: Good Intention or Good Optics? - News18

News 18

In July 2023, the state of Rajasthan passed a new law Rajasthan Platform-Based Gig Workers Act, 2023. Although Rajasthan Gig Law demolished norms of public consultation and evidence-based law-making, public choice theory shows the timing and speed could not have been better with state elections due end of this year. Problems of the Rajasthan Gig Law First, the Rajasthan Gig …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Gig Workers Bill: reading between the lines

The Hindu

In a first of its kind, the Rajasthan government introduced the Rajasthan Platform-Based Gig Workers Bill, 2023, with the aim of ensuring social security for gig workers. Editorial | Promising Bill: On the Rajasthan Platform-based Gig Workers Bill, 2023 Third, the Bill aims to create a database of gig workers wherein the details of all the workers onboarded or registered …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Rajasthan law ‘good start’, but Delhi gig workers want safety net as employees

The Hindu

The Rajasthan Platform Based Gig Workers Act, 2023, which extends social security to gig workers and creates a regulatory framework for aggregators, has drawn mixed reactions from the unorganised workforce in the national capital. Shaik Salauddin, national general secretary, Indian Federation of App-Based Transport Workers, said, “It is commendable that the Rajasthan government formulated this Act that establishes a tripartite …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Rajasthan’s gig law a step in the right direction, but more needed to protect platform workers

The Hindu

Published : Aug 10, 2023 11:00 IST - 17 MINS READ The passing of the Rajasthan Platform Based Gig Workers Act, 2023, by the Rajasthan Assembly on July 24 is a celebratory moment for gig workers and their unions. This small win holds implications for such workers across India as pressure is now building on other States to bring platform …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Gig law can shape 21st century welfare models

Hindustan Times

July has been an important month for gig and platform workers with the G20 labour and employment ministers’ meeting foregrounding social security thanks to India’s stewardship, and creating a policy imagination on social security for these workers, despite their nebulous classification. The Hamal and Mathadi worker welfare board has been a particularly excellent example of a model working to safeguard …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Gig workers demand model law, labour rights, social security

The Hindu

The National Coordination Committee on Gig Workers, an umbrella organisation of several unions working among gig and platform workers, on July 27 protested in front of Parliament and demanded the Centre for a model law for the sector so that these workers get social and job security. Explained | Blinkit protests and the legal remedies available to gig workers In …

Gig Workers Platform Platforms Demand Model

1 year, 5 months ago

Drawn from gig workers’ struggles, hewn in Rajasthan

The Hindu

The Rajasthan Platform Based Gig Workers Act 2023, passed in the Rajasthan Assembly on July 24, is a powerful example of how labour law draws its strength from workers’ struggles and victories of the past, even as “the workers of the world” respond to new relationships of employers, employees, and workers rights in the evolving future. They demanded social security …

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1 year, 5 months ago

India's first gig workers bill passed in Rajasthan: What is this law and who are these workers?

India TV News

Rajasthan is set to become the first state to have a separate law for gig workers. The state assembly passed a bill for the formation of a welfare board as well as a fund for platform-based gig workers in the state and to facilitate social security for them. Officially known as the 'Platform-Based Gig Workers Bill, 2023', it was passed …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Rajasthan outlines plan for gig workers’ welfare

Hindustan Times

The Rajasthan government has proposed to levy a “welfare cess” on consumers to ensure better rights and facilities for gig workers in the draft of a new law that also provides for a fine up to ₹1 crore on errant aggregators, officials aware of the matter said. HT Image According to the draft of the bill, seen by HT, the …

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1 year, 9 months ago

A new deal to protect India’s gig workers?

Hindustan Times

Last month, as part of its budget for 2023-24, Rajasthan announced that the state will enact a law for the protection of gig workers, establish a welfare board, and devote ₹200 crore for this purpose. It will be administered by a welfare board, which — if labour demands are fulfilled — will have representatives of the government, platform companies and …

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1 year, 9 months ago

3rd IDIA Delhi Chapter Article Writing Competition 2023.

Live Law

Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access : Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access, is a non-profit organisation that aims to empower underprivileged and marginalised children by giving them access to quality legal education, in a bid to enhance the diversity in law schools across India. Conceptualised in 2010 as the brainchild of late Prof. Shamnad Basheer, IDIA has since expanded to over …

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1 year, 10 months ago

New labour law in Karnataka promotes China-like work culture

Live Mint

Apple and its manufacturing partner Foxconn were involved in lobbying for a significant liberalisation of labour laws in Karnataka. This landmark legislation led to changes that allow for 12-hour shifts and night-time work for women, which is similar to the companies’ practices in China, reported Financial Times while citing sources familiar with the matter. The new law provides one of …

India Karnataka Work Foxconn

2 years, 1 month ago

New law needed to help gig, platform workers: ILO DG

The Hindu

56% of the population in the Asia Pacific and 60% in the Arab States have no access to any social protection benefits, said Gilbert F. Houngbo, Director-General of the International Labour Organisation here on Tuesday. On the gig and platform workers and gig and platform economy, Mr. Houngbo said it is important to have a law or a convention at …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Labor proposal could upend rules for gig workers, companies

Associated Press

The Biden administration proposed new standards Tuesday that could make it more difficult to classify millions of workers as independent contractors and deny them minimum wage and benefits. The U.S. Department of Labor rule, which could take months to take effect, would replace a scrapped Trump-era standard that had lowered the bar for classifying employees as contractors, workers who are …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Labor proposal could upend rules for gig workers, companies

LA Times

The stock market reaction to the proposed change for contracts workers was immediate, pushing down shares of Uber and Lyft, both of which rely heavily on “gig” workers. The U.S. Department of Labor rule, which could take months to take effect, would replace a scrapped Trump-era standard that had lowered the bar for classifying employees as contractors, workers who are …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Hard truths about India’s labour reforms

The Hindu

Independent India was born at the midnight hour on August 15, 1947, 75 years ago, when India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled the country’s tricolour flag and announced to Parliament that India had made a “tryst with destiny”. Editorial | Death trap: On Labour reforms The dominant ‘theory-in-use’ to increase employment is to improve the ease of doing business, …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Government’s own ‘gig workers’

The Hindu

When images of a langur appear on the walls of Vigyan Bhavan and nearby sites in New Delhi, the protagonist in the movie, Eeb Allay Ooo!, is summoned along with his thekedaar to the office of the municipal corporation. The modalities of “contractual” jobs in the public sector, therefore, require a much deeper examination than it has been afforded in …

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2 years, 6 months ago

India’s gig workforce will grow to 2.35 crore by 2029-30: Niti Aayog study

The Hindu

The government’s policy think tank Niti Aayog has recommended that measures should be taken to provide for social security, including paid leave, occupational disease and work accident insurance, support during irregularity of work and pension plans, for the gig workforce in the country, which is expected to grow to 2.35 crore by 2029-30. The report broadly classifies gig workers — …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Casuals, contractors and gig workers set for 'potentially massive' changes under Labor

ABC

Work is going to change for millions of Australians. Key points: Labor will make job security a key aim of laws and processes around work Gig workers may get expanded protections and "employee-like" conditions There is little detail about the proposals With the election campaign focused on issues as disparate as the cost of living, China’s growing regional influence and …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Gig workers vulnerable to exploitation

The Hindu

As “delivery riders”, they zip around on their bikes non-stop after picking up orders from restaurants or retail chains trying to meet daily targets. According to India Brand Equity Foundation, a trust established by the Department of Commerce, an estimate showed that by 2025, there would be 350 million gig workers, thus presenting “a huge opportunity for job seekers to …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Gig Workers, Platform Workers & Gig Economy

Live Law

When the new labour Codes were introduced, like every other legislation, they invited critique from different quarters because of reasons ranging from lawmakers' lackadaisical understanding of labour policy to increased stringency of provisions making it more difficult for workers to assert certain basic rights. Gig workers everywhere in India rejoiced, considering the Code on Social Security finally provided them with …

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3 years ago

'Unintended Byproduct Of A Well Intended Legislation': Kerala High Court Calls For Ban On Nokkukooli, Calls It Illegal & Unconstitutional

Live Law

The Kerala High Court on Monday pronounced an elaborate judgment observing that the practice of demanding gawking charges, often referred to as 'nokkukooli' in Malayalam, had to be banned in the State once and for all. Referring to the Kerala Headload Worker's Act, Justice Devan Ramachandran ordered as under:"It is unclear how nokkukooli - literally translated to mean gawking charges …

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3 years ago

Less take home salary, likely 4-day work week: India’s new labour laws may be implemented next fiscal year

Live Mint

The four labour codes on wages, social security, industrial relations and occupation safety, health and working conditions are likely to be implemented by the next financial year, news agency PTI reported citing a senior government official. The four codes, if implemented, will drastically alter the way industrial houses treat their employees and also impact the working hours, take home salary …

Labour Work Provident Fund Centre Codes Draft Rules

3 years ago

It's time to regulate regulations in India to boost startups | OPINION

India Today

Uber was illegal in most countries when it started off. It does not help startups that are trying to change the status quo and have to create new markets, deal with attracting funds, attracting talent, aligning with the compliances in the country and then also engage in public policy discussions to change regulations that are limiting the ability of the …

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3 years, 1 month ago

NLIU-NLUD Global Symposium on Labour and Employment Laws [Deadline Extended]

Live Law

The Centre for Labour Laws, National Law Institute University, Bhopal in collaboration with National Law University, Delhi is organising a first of its kind 'Global Symposium on Labour and Employment Laws in February, 2022. THEME The theme for the same is "Discussing key issues and new developments in the field of Labour and Employment Laws in the International Arena." · …

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3 years, 5 months ago

The shaky foundation of the labour law reforms

The Hindu

The National Democratic Alliance government enacted the Code on Wages in August 2019 and the other three Codes, viz., the Industrial Relations Code, the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code and Code on Social Security in September 2020. In the meanwhile, the Supreme Court of India has exerted pressure on both the central and the State governments to implement …

India Labour Reforms Minimum Wages Social Security Workers Migrant Workers

3 years, 7 months ago

Breaking the cycle of child labour is in India’s hands

The Hindu

The true extent of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on child labour is yet to be measured but all indications show that it would be significant as children are unable to attend school and parents are unable to find work. What the data show As the world enters the third decade of the 21st century, 152 million children around …

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3 years, 10 months ago

Book Review-Understanding Workplace Laws For Women In India

Live Law

Over the last 8 years, workplace safety has taken the lead for lawyers and HR professionals at organisations. This book attempts to address that gap between the letter of the law and its actual implementation while consolidating information on major workplace laws for women. Interestingly, the authors have consolidated state-specific occupational safety legislations and have provided a comparative table of …

Women Book Workplace Laws

4 years ago

Labour reforms are not to blame for the unrest at Wistron’s plant

Live Mint

The unfortunate events of 12 December at the Wistron plant near Bengaluru have re-opened an old and ongoing debate about India’s labour laws, both in terms of reforms of those laws and the enforcement of existing rules. As reported, he complains that under the aegis of the newly-reformed labour laws, firms are increasing work hours and resorting more to contract …

India Contract Labour Reforms Workers Laws Firms

4 years ago

The fallout of keying in the wrong labour codes

The Hindu

On December 12, contract workers ransacked Wistron’s iPhone assembly factory in Karnataka, at Narsapura in Kolar district, about 80 kilometres from Bengaluru. However, according to a preliminary inquiry report by the State labour department into the incident, Wistron and its labour contractors violated many provisions of the laws that led to the violence. India’s labour laws are indeed a cumbersome …

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#DakshaMasterclass: Changing Labour Regulations In India [26th Aug]

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