In a new-age world of work, address key systemic issues
2 years, 2 months 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 2020 has been enacted in India, legally acknowledging gig workers in Indian jurisprudence. This code paves the way for statutorily entitling gig workers to social security benefits related to life and disability cover, accident insurance, health and maternity benefits and old-age protection.

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India’s social security net expands: Mansukh Mandaviya
6 days, 22 hours ago

India’s social security net expands: Mansukh Mandaviya

The Hindu  

A comprehensive data-pooling exercise led by the Union Labour Ministry in collaboration with the International Labour Organization has shown that 65% of the country’s population is covered by at least one social protection benefit, with 48.8% receiving cash benefits. Announcing the results of the exercise here on Tuesday, Union Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said over 200 crore records were processed …

ILO chief lauds India’s social security network
1 month, 1 week ago

ILO chief lauds India’s social security network

The Hindu  

Citing the “World Social Protection Report 2024-26”, Director-General of the International Labour Organization, Gilbert F. Houngbo, said that the proportion of India’s population covered under at least one branch of social protection has increased from 24% to 49%, almost doubling in a very short time. “This remarkable achievement reflects the strong partnership between India and the ILO and the decisive …

Quest for consistent social security across Indian states
6 months 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 …

​Even the odd jobs: On the Karnataka Platform-based Gig Workers (Social Security and Welfare) Bill
8 months, 3 weeks 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 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 …

L-20 summit: Guv urges participants to keep human touch in all deliberations
1 year, 9 months ago

L-20 summit: Guv urges participants to keep human touch in all deliberations

Hindustan Times  

Patna: Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar during the inauguration of the two-day Labour –20 summit of group of 20 nations in state capital Patna on Thursday urged the participants to keep in mind the human touch while dealing with the deliberations on issues of social security and women’s safety at the workplace across the world. “The deliberations will be futile or …

What women need to participate in the changing world of work
2 years, 2 months ago

What women need to participate in the changing world of work

Hindustan Times  

The world of work is changing rapidly - technology, innovation, the climate crisis, and demographic shifts are some of the important drivers for the future of work. Thus, providing universal social protection, upskilling women, supporting their shift from informal to formal work and promoting entrepreneurship are essential to reduce their vulnerability and ensure decent working conditions. Tech-enabled emerging sectors that …

Towards universal social security: Priorities for G20
2 years, 2 months ago

Towards universal social security: Priorities for G20

Hindustan Times  

At least four billion people around the world are yet to be covered by any form of social security, and therefore vulnerable to economic, social, and environmental shocks. India, as current president of the G20, can guide the grouping in creating sustainable financing for social security, utilising lessons it has learnt from its own social protection schemes. The International Labour …

Making out a case for the other UBI in India
2 years, 7 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 …

Budget 2022: It’s time for govt to address employment generation, growth across various sectors
3 years, 2 months 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 …

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 …

Parliament Passes Three Key Labour Reform Bills amid Boycott by Opposition Parties
4 years, 6 months ago

Parliament Passes Three Key Labour Reform Bills amid Boycott by Opposition Parties

News 18  

Parliament on Wednesday approved three key labour reform bills that will remove impediments for winding up of companies and allow firing of staff without government permission in firms with up to 300 workers. Amid boycott by opposition parties including Congress and Left over suspension of eight MPs, Rajya Sabha passed by voice vote the three remaining labour codes on industrial …

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 …

Govt plans to roll out social security code across country in three phases before 2019 Lok Sabha election
6 years, 4 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 …

Six charts that explain India’s social protection challenge
9 years, 10 months ago

Six charts that explain India’s social protection challenge

Live Mint  

The government’s recent launch of three social security schemes has once again turned the spotlight on the lack of state protection for most Indian citizens. The three schemes—the Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Yojana and Atal Pension Yojana—seek to provide accidental death risk cover, contributory pension and natural and accidental death risk cover. The International Labour …

How effective are social security and welfare in India?
10 years, 2 months 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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