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Platform for protection
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Platform for protection

China Daily  

Updated: 2024-10-08 09:51 Delivery riders of technology company Grab's GrabFood platform in Singapore in 2022. Cabbies, private-hire drivers and freelance delivery workers who rely on online matching platforms for income will get better labor protection from Jan 1, 2025, after the Parliament of Singapore passed a landmark Bill on Sept 10 designating them as a distinct legal category in between …

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Quest for consistent social security across Indian states
2 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 …

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Govt mulls reworking migrant, gig worker definitions
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Govt mulls reworking migrant, gig worker definitions

Hindustan Times  

The Union labour ministry is considering a review of the statutory definitions of the term migrant worker to widen its scope and gig worker to bring more clarity, for which preliminary discussions were held recently, a person familiar with the matter said. Govt mulls reworking migrant, gig worker definitions The Modi government, in its previous term, enacted four labour codes …

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ClearTax Launches WhatsApp-Based ITR Filing Solution for Over 20 Million Gig Workers in India
5 months ago

ClearTax Launches WhatsApp-Based ITR Filing Solution for Over 20 Million Gig Workers in India

ABP News  

Filing income tax returns is set to become even more convenient with a new initiative aimed at simplifying the process. ClearTax, a prominent online tax-filing platform, has introduced a WhatsApp-based ITR filing solution designed specifically for India's gig workers. This innovative service aims to streamline the tax filing process for more than 20 million gig workers across the country. This …

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Europe to End Robo-Firing in Major Gig Economy Overhaul
54 years, 11 months ago

Europe to End Robo-Firing in Major Gig Economy Overhaul

Wired  

Platform workers can no longer be fired automatically by algorithms, according to new European Union rules agreed today in a sweeping reform of the gig economy that will affect Uber drivers and Deliveroo couriers. “Now we have a proper system, which is something that doesn't exist anywhere else around the world,” said Elisabetta Gualmini, an Italian politician who led the …

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Rajasthan’s gig law a step in the right direction, but more needed to protect platform workers
1 year, 4 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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Rajasthan’s move spells some hope for gig workers
1 year, 7 months ago

Rajasthan’s move spells some hope for gig workers

The Hindu  

The Chief Minister of Rajasthan announced earlier this year that the State would set up India’s first welfare fund called the Rajasthan Platform-Based Gig Workers Social Security and Welfare Fund. This is the first real instance of a regulatory move to unburden gig and platform workers’ vulnerabilities since the Code on Social Security was passed in 2020. Tied down in …

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New law needed to help gig, platform workers: ILO DG
2 years 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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Twitter employees brace for massive layoffs as Elon Musk completes his acquisition
2 years, 1 month ago

Twitter employees brace for massive layoffs as Elon Musk completes his acquisition

LA Times  

Elon Musk has told potential investors he plans to cut Twitter’s staff of roughly 7,500 employees to just over 2,000. After six months of wrangling and delaying tactics, Elon Musk’s deal to buy Twitter finally closed late Thursday, according to reports — leaving Twitter employees facing a very different picture than the one they contemplated in April. “Elon Musk’s plan …

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Platform workers suffer from poor mental health, study finds
2 years, 2 months ago

Platform workers suffer from poor mental health, study finds

NL Times  

Gig workers who work at places like ridesharing companies or meal delivery services have poorer mental health than people who are otherwise employed, the NOS reports from an Erasmus University Rotterdam study. Over 3,600 so-called "platform workers," often self-employed individuals who work for platforms like Thuisbezorgd.nl or Uber, participated in the study. "I see my family a lot less than …

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India’s gig workforce will grow to 2.35 crore by 2029-30: Niti Aayog study
2 years, 5 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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Is disruption ahead for the gig economy?
2 years, 10 months ago

Is disruption ahead for the gig economy?

Hindustan Times  

When they first entered our lives, gig economy platforms seemed to herald an urban revolution. This counter-narrative paints gig platforms as shady internet intermediaries, which have been able to inflate their own valuations by exploiting workers and trampling on their rights. If gig economy evangelists invoke a glorious future where no one needs to be chained to a nine-to-five routine, …

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Gig Workers, Platform Workers & Gig Economy
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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The tug of war within the gig economy
3 years ago

The tug of war within the gig economy

Live Mint  

BENGALURU : In February this year, Uber lost a significant legal battle in the UK when the country’s Supreme Court upheld a previous ruling by the employment tribunal that the 25 drivers who had brought a case against Uber are indeed employees and not contractors. As if on cue, the European Union recently introduced a draft that aims to make …

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Supreme Court Issues Notice On Gig Workers' Plea For Benefits As Workers Of Apps Like Uber, Ola, Zomato, Swiggy Etc
3 years ago

Supreme Court Issues Notice On Gig Workers' Plea For Benefits As Workers Of Apps Like Uber, Ola, Zomato, Swiggy Etc

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice in a writ petition seeking social security rights for "gig workers" employed by online food delivery, courier and tax aggregators applications such as Ola, Uber, Zomato, Swiggy etc.A bench comprising Justice L Nageswara Rao and Justice BR Gavai issued notice in the writ petition filed by the "Indian Federation Of App Based Transport …

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Facebook to hire 10,000 workers in Europe to build ‘metaverse’
3 years, 2 months ago

Facebook to hire 10,000 workers in Europe to build ‘metaverse’

Al Jazeera  

The new hires will work on a new computing platform that connects people virtually but could raises concerns about privacy. Facebook said it plans to hire 10,000 workers in the European Union across the next five years to work on a new computing platform that promises to connect people virtually but could raise concerns about privacy and the social platform …

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Platform workers need justice, not charity
3 years, 3 months ago

Platform workers need justice, not charity

Hindustan Times  

The narrative of the platform economy has been dominated by the platforms themselves. Platforms deprive delivery workers of protection under labour law by classifying them as “independent contractors” or as “partners”. By engaging in the pretence that the relationship between a platform and a delivery worker is between two equally positioned professionals — such as, for example, a freelance designer …

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OnlyFans ditches sex work ban in abrupt reversal — but creators remain wary
3 years, 3 months ago

OnlyFans ditches sex work ban in abrupt reversal — but creators remain wary

LA Times  

Less than a week after OnlyFans sent shock waves through the adult entertainment industry with an announcement that it would soon be banning pornography from its platform, the company has reversed course, saying it will continue to support explicit content. “We have secured assurances necessary to support our diverse creator community and have suspended the planned October 1 policy change,” …

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A secure future for platform workers
4 years, 1 month ago

A secure future for platform workers

The Hindu  

The Code on Social Security Bill, 2020, for the first time in Indian law, attempted to define ‘platform work’ outside of the traditional employment category. It says: “Platform work means a work arrangement outside of a traditional employer-employee relationship in which organisations or individuals use an online platform to access other organisations or individuals to solve specific problems or to …

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Gig work and its skewed terms
4 years, 2 months ago

Gig work and its skewed terms

The Hindu  

The new Code on Social Security allows a platform worker to be defined by their vulnerability — not their labour, nor the vulnerabilities of platform work. The three new labour codes passed by Parliament recently acknowledge platform and gig workers as new occupational categories in the making, in a bid to keep India’s young workforce secure as it embraces ‘new …

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Parliament Clears Three Codes To Reform Indian Labour Laws [Read Bills]
4 years, 3 months ago

Parliament Clears Three Codes To Reform Indian Labour Laws [Read Bills]

Live Law  

The Rajya Sabha today passed three Labour codes namely: Occupational Safety, Health & Working Conditions Code, 2020 The Industrial Relations Code, 2020 The Code on Social Security, 2020 These Bills were introduced by Labour Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar. Inter-state migrant workers and unorganized workers Inter-state migrant workers include a person who: has been recruited by an employer or contractor for …

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Devise a new labour law regime for gig economy workers
4 years, 3 months ago

Devise a new labour law regime for gig economy workers

Hindustan Times  

The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed multiple fault-lines in India’s economy and labour market. The employee/contractor binary, however, is based upon an outdated vision of work, where the factory or the shop floor was the predominant site of “work” The root of the problem lies in an outdated labour law regime. In the case of Uber, for example, the app plays …

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