Draft code proposes social security for all informal, gig workers
5 years, 6 months ago

Draft code proposes social security for all informal, gig workers

Live Mint  

New Delhi: India may be moving towards social security for all with the draft social security code proposing to offer a slew of benefits from provident funds to health cover, accident insurance, and education for children of informal and gig workers. The draft code, reviewed by Mint, says the “central government shall formulate and notify, from time to time, suitable welfare schemes for unorganised workers on matters relating to life and disability cover, health and maternity benefits, old age protection, and any other benefit as may be determined by the central government”. The code, which will merge eight existing laws, suggests that along with the central government, states may also formulate schemes for unorganised sector employees for offering them provident fund, employment injury benefit, housing benefit, educational schemes for their children and old age and funeral assistance. The draft code says the “central government may formulate and notify, from time to time, suitable social security schemes for gig workers and platform workers” and such schemes would encompass issues such as “life and disability cover, health and maternity benefits, old age protection and any other benefit as may be determined by the central government.

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Delhi government forms panels for welfare of gig workers
1 week, 6 days ago

Delhi government forms panels for welfare of gig workers

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: In a step towards fulfilling a key poll promise, the Delhi government has formed committees to draft welfare schemes for gig workers, including delivery personnel and domestic workers. The move aligns with the BJP-led Delhi government’s manifesto commitment to strengthening social security for gig workers, which includes promises such as Rs 10 lakh life insurance and Rs 5 …

Budget focus firmly on employment generation: Labour Minster
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Budget focus firmly on employment generation: Labour Minster

The Hindu  

The Labour Ministry got its highest ever allocation in this year’s Union Budget and the increase in funding will help focus on the new employment generation scheme, Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Sunday. The Ministry’s main focus is the new Employment Generation Scheme, for which the budgetary allocation has been doubled from ₹10,000 crore to ₹20,000 crore. “The allocation …

Govt’s steps for gig workers half-hearted, need national social security architecture for them, says Congress
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Govt’s steps for gig workers half-hearted, need national social security architecture for them, says Congress

The Hindu  

The government has only committed to "half-hearted" steps of registering gig workers on e-SHRAM and including them under the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, the Congress said on Sunday and asserted that India needs a national legal and social security architecture for such workers. In a post on X, Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh said the …

Government's steps for gig workers half-hearted, need national social security architecture for them: Congress
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Government's steps for gig workers half-hearted, need national social security architecture for them: Congress

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: The government has only committed to "half-hearted" steps of registering gig workers on e-SHRAM and including them under the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, the Congress said on Sunday and asserted that India needs a national legal and social security architecture for such workers. The Congress's attack came a day after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced …

States-led panels to draft comprehensive social security plan for workers
1 month, 3 weeks ago

States-led panels to draft comprehensive social security plan for workers

The Hindu  

The two-day Chintan Shivir of the Labour Ministers and Secretaries of Union and State governments, which concluded on Thursday, has decided to form three committees comprising five States each to develop a sustainable model for comprehensive social security coverage for workers. The meeting, chaired by Union Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, was the last of the six regional workshops and several …

Gig workers’ unions demand Karnataka govt. to pass welfare law instead of waiting for Centre to frame rules for Social Security Code
2 months, 1 week ago

Gig workers’ unions demand Karnataka govt. to pass welfare law instead of waiting for Centre to frame rules for Social Security Code

The Hindu  

Platform and gig workers’ unions and experts have demanded that the Karnataka government pass the The Karnataka Platform Based Gig Workers Bill at the earliest and not wait for the Central government to frame rules for the Code on Social Security SS), 2020. Undeterred exploitation Vinay Sarathy of United Food Delivery Partners’ Union pointed out that without a comprehensive legislation …

Labour reforms, social security for informal workers, transformative policies on cards in 2025
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Labour reforms, social security for informal workers, transformative policies on cards in 2025

Live Mint  

New Delhi, Dec 30 Speedy implementation of labour codes, providing social security to informal workers, especially gig and platform, and bringing transformative policies would be the government's priority in 2025 to empower all and boost the economy. The four labour codes on social security, industrial relations, wages, and Occupational Safety Health & Working Conditions were passed by Parliament. While provisions …

Odisha's Rural Workforce: A Savings Puzzle
5 months ago

Odisha's Rural Workforce: A Savings Puzzle

New Indian Express  

Despite being one of the states with the lowest average household income in India, Odisha shows a high savings tendency among its rural population. However, a significant portion of the state's workforce does not enjoy social security benefits, highlighting the need for a comprehensive social safety net for the non-agriculture workforce.

Quest for consistent social security across Indian states
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Quest for consistent social security across Indian states

Hindustan Times  

A wave of legislation aimed at regulating social security for gig and platform workers is sweeping through Indian states. While the CoSS 2020 clearly outlines social security benefits for workers, state regulations lack this specificity, creating uncertainty about the support they will provide. Without specified benefits, state laws could lead to avoidable delays, costly duplication, and ultimately, suboptimal social security …

Govt plans to launch social security scheme for gig economy workers | Know benefits
6 months, 1 week ago

Govt plans to launch social security scheme for gig economy workers | Know benefits

India TV News  

Social Security Scheme: The central government is likely to announce a social security scheme for the estimated 7.7 million gig workers in the country. As per the reports, aggregators may be required to contribute 1-2 per cent of their revenue to establish a social security fund, which would offer health insurance and other benefits to workers. Labor Minister meets officials …

Govt plans to unveil social security plan for gig workers
6 months, 1 week ago

Govt plans to unveil social security plan for gig workers

Hindustan Times  

The Union government may soon announce a social safety net for the country’s estimated 7.7 million gig economy workers, people familiar with the thinking in the highest echelons of government said, with aggregators likely to be asked to pay 1-2% of their revenue to create a social security fund that can provide health insurance and other benefits to the workers. …

Union Budget 2024: Medical insurance and retirement benefits for gig workers possible
8 months, 1 week ago

Union Budget 2024: Medical insurance and retirement benefits for gig workers possible

Hindustan Times  

With the Union Budget 2024 scheduled to be presented on June 23 by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, the government is likely to create a social security fund for gig workers to provide medical and accident insurance cover alongside retirement benefits, CNBC-Awaaz reported, citing unnamed sources. Workers, aggregators and the government shall contribute to this fund and institutions like the Employees …

India needs national legal, social security architecture for gig workers: Congress
8 months, 1 week 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 …

​Even the odd jobs: On the Karnataka Platform-based Gig Workers (Social Security and Welfare) Bill
8 months, 1 week 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, …

Rajasthan law ‘good start’, but Delhi gig workers want safety net as employees
1 year, 7 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 …

Rajasthan govt tables India’s first gig workers rights bill
1 year, 8 months ago

Rajasthan govt tables India’s first gig workers rights bill

Live Mint  

In a bid a become India's first state to guarantee social security to gig workers, Rajasthan on Friday tabled the Rajasthan Platform Based GIG Workers Bill, 2023. 'The Rajasthan Platform Based Gig Workers Welfare Board' will be established in the state where the gig workers of the state will be registered with all the aggregators of the state. The government …

Promising Bill: The Hindu Editorial on the Rajasthan Platform-based Gig Workers (Registration and Welfare) Bill, 2023
1 year, 10 months ago

Promising Bill: The Hindu Editorial on the Rajasthan Platform-based Gig Workers (Registration and Welfare) Bill, 2023

The Hindu  

With an estimated eight million people employed in an industry built on the back of the smartphone revolution, “gig” work has become a major source of jobs for youth in India. Adding this to the fact that gig workers are not recognised as “workers” but partners by most aggregating platforms and that they lack any social security or related benefits …

Rajasthan outlines plan for gig workers’ welfare
1 year, 10 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 …

In a new-age world of work, address key systemic issues
2 years, 1 month ago

In a new-age world of work, address key systemic issues

Hindustan Times  

The world over, issues relating to employment, job creation and retention, appropriate skilling, new forms of employment, and sustainable social protection are emerging as challenges for national governments. Gig and platform workers have unique challenges, including irregular work and inadequate social protection, despite the gig economy’s potential to enhance labour force participation. On social protection, the Code on Social Security …

Gig economy: Building a more conducive ecosystem for the workers in 2023
2 years, 2 months ago

Gig economy: Building a more conducive ecosystem for the workers in 2023

Firstpost  

Over the last five years, the Indian gig economy has evolved from a pool of primarily low-skilled workers to a $15 million strong workforce across low, mid and high-skill segments. Now that the Indian gig economy has matured to a certain extent, it becomes the collective responsibility of all stakeholders to step together and create an ecosystem that is more …

Expanding Social Security Coverage For Informal Sector Workers To Be Focus In 2023: Labour Min
2 years, 2 months ago

Expanding Social Security Coverage For Informal Sector Workers To Be Focus In 2023: Labour Min

ABP News  

Expanding the social security coverage for unorganised workers and pursuing states to make rules for labour codes will be the key priorities for the government in 2023, as efforts continue to strengthen the country's labour market. With India set to host G-20 leaders' summit for the first time next year, the Union labour ministry will also pursue key employment-related agenda …

Making out a case for the other UBI in India
2 years, 6 months ago

Making out a case for the other UBI in India

The Hindu  

It took the COVID-19 pandemic to expose the precariousness of human society across the world. For health and income On the health security front, for the unorganised sector, there is the Ayushman Bharat Scheme of the central government with over 490 million beneficiaries. In the organised sector, the Central government runs the Employees State Insurance Corporation and Central Government Health …

Himachal CM attempts to woo pensioners; ₹280 crore transferred to 6.35 lakh beneficiaries
2 years, 10 months ago

Himachal CM attempts to woo pensioners; ₹280 crore transferred to 6.35 lakh beneficiaries

Hindustan Times  

Aiming to achieve “Mission Repeat”, which hasn’t happened in Himachal in since 1985, chief minister Jai Ram Thakur on Monday attempted to woo beneficiaries of various social security pension schemes. Himachal CM Jai Ram Thakur during the social security pension disbursal event at Shahpur in Kangra on Monday Addressing a social security pension disbursal event at Shahpur in Kangra district …

Gig workers vulnerable to exploitation
3 years 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 …

Budget 2022: It’s time for govt to address employment generation, growth across various sectors
3 years, 1 month ago

Budget 2022: It’s time for govt to address employment generation, growth across various sectors

Firstpost  

Less than two years ago, the world changed as we know it. Budget 2022 should address the employment generation and growth across various sectors. • The Pradhan Mantri Rojgar Protsahan Yojana Plan Scheme which had been designed to incentivise employers for the generation of new employment should be immediately brought back allowing EPFO grants for the first 3 years for …

Environment Minister Bhupendra Yadav interview | ‘We will discuss access to technology and finance at COP26’
3 years, 4 months ago

Environment Minister Bhupendra Yadav interview | ‘We will discuss access to technology and finance at COP26’

The Hindu  

Ahead of his departure to Glasgow, Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav outlined India’s key concerns at the COP negotiations and said his ministry’s policy was to balance the challenges posed by infrastructure development in forests. We’ve working in a way to ensure development as well as giving importance to the rights of tribals as well as protecting the forest. On …

A collage of laws that leaves the worker out in the cold
3 years, 10 months ago

A collage of laws that leaves the worker out in the cold

The Hindu  

As COVID-19 destroys lives and livelihoods, an unprepared government has rendered low-paid, informal workers, who constitute 91% of the workforce, totally hapless, pushing them further into poverty. The SS Code 2020 merges existing social security laws and attempts to include informal workers within the ambit of social security administration. Hurdles for informal workers However, is the Code going to provide …

Formalising social security for the informal sector
4 years, 1 month ago

Formalising social security for the informal sector

The Hindu  

During the Budget speech, the Finance inister talked about the 20-year long process of implementing the labour codes in India. These codes passed by the Lok Sabha in the previous year includes the extension of Employee State Insurance and other social security mechanisms to gig economy workers. The Code on Social Security provides for Provident Fund, Gratuity, Employees’ State Insurance …

Union Budget 2021: Social security for gig workers will nurture risk appetite in workers, say experts
4 years, 1 month ago

Union Budget 2021: Social security for gig workers will nurture risk appetite in workers, say experts

Firstpost  

Presenting the Union Budget for 2021-22, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the government also proposed setting up of a portal to collect information on gig-workers, building and construction workers, among others. The government said social security benefits will be extended to platform and gig workers. Gayathri Vasudevan Chairperson and Co-Founder, Labournet Services India Social security benefits to gig workers and …

Code debate: The Hindu Editorial on new labour codes
4 years, 5 months ago

Code debate: The Hindu Editorial on new labour codes

The Hindu  

Some laws are far too important and have far too much impact on the people to be passed in haste or without sufficient deliberation. The Industrial Relations Code, the Social Security Code and the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020, are an updated version of the respective Codes of 2019, which were scrutinised by a Standing Committee. The …

Centre Introduces 3 Key Labour Codes in Lok Sabha, Says it Will Extend Social Security to All Workers
4 years, 6 months ago

Centre Introduces 3 Key Labour Codes in Lok Sabha, Says it Will Extend Social Security to All Workers

News 18  

Amid ruckus in the house on Saturday, the government introduced three labour legislations, including the Code on Industrial Relations, the Social Security Code and the Code on Occupational Safety, Health and Working Condition in the Lok Sabha. “We have included 174 out of 233 or 74% of the recommendations of the standing committee on labour across three codes being introduced …

Draft Social Security code is out: Five things you need to know
5 years, 6 months ago

Draft Social Security code is out: Five things you need to know

Live Mint  

New Delhi: After years of deliberations, the union government has finally circulated the draft social security code, a key labour law proposal that seeks to amalgamate a clutch of existing laws and proposes several new initiatives including universal social security for unorganized sector workers and, insurance and health benefits for gig workers including the Ola and Uber drivers. Here are …

Budget: Govt announces pension cushion for workers in informal sector
6 years, 1 month ago

Budget: Govt announces pension cushion for workers in informal sector

Hindustan Times  

In a move aimed at benefiting workers in India’s unorganised or informal sector, the National Democratic Alliance government in its interim budget 2019-20, announced the launch of a pension yojana ‘Pradhan Mantri Shram-Yogi Maandhan’ that can be availed by workers with monthly income upto ₹15,000. In a move aimed at benefiting workers in India’s unorganised or informal sector, the interim …

Govt plans to roll out social security code across country in three phases before 2019 Lok Sabha election
6 years, 3 months ago

Govt plans to roll out social security code across country in three phases before 2019 Lok Sabha election

Firstpost  

The basic idea behind the pan-India launch of social security scheme is that the ministry does not want to take up controversial issues especially when the general election is months away from now. The labour ministry plans to roll out social security code across the country in three phases before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, according to media reports. Earlier …

India takes a big step towards dignity of labour via an extensive social security scheme for 50 crore workers
7 years ago

India takes a big step towards dignity of labour via an extensive social security scheme for 50 crore workers

Op India  

In what might be a huge step towards ensuring social security for millions of India workers, the Labour Ministry has proposed an extensive scheme to provide benefits pertaining to retirement, health, old age, disability, unemployment and maternity, to about 50 crore Indian workers. While the whole success or failure of this ambitious social security exercise rests on the implementation, this …

Govt working on universal social security scheme, aims to cover workers from informal sector
7 years, 2 months ago

Govt working on universal social security scheme, aims to cover workers from informal sector

Firstpost  

The government of India is working on the draft of a new social security scheme that would offer a safety cover all workers including those from the informal sector The government of India is working on the draft of a new social security scheme that would offer a safety cover for all workers including those from the informal sector who …

How effective are social security and welfare in India?
10 years, 1 month ago

How effective are social security and welfare in India?

The Hindu  

India’s growth story of the last two decades has had one recurring theme: that the pattern of economic growth is accentuating insecurities. Economists Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze distinguish two aspects of social security —“protection” and “promotion.” While the former denotes protection against a fall in living standards and living conditions through ill health, accidents, the latter focuses on enhanced …

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