| Enrolment on E-Shram Portal: The government is considering advancing social security benefits for gig workers before the full implementation of the Social Security Code. The labour ministry has engaged with platform operators and plans to expedite enrolment on the e-Shram portal. States like Karnataka, Telangana, and Rajasthan are already working on policies to support gig workers. |
- A report by the Fairwork project- coordinated by the Oxford Internet Institute and the WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
- It assesses the working conditions of gig workers on major e-commerce platforms, evaluating them against five principles: fair pay, fair conditions, fair contracts, fair management, and fair representation.
- The report highlights the platforms’ lack of commitment to ensuring local living wages and recognizing collective representation through trade unions.
- No platform committed to a living wage, or provided sufficient evidence that all workers earn this amount.
- No platform scoring on all basic principles.
Dig Deeper: Read about the concept of Gig workers and the initiatives launched by the Government of India for the formalisation of the Workforce.
