Karnataka government releases draft bill for welfare of platform-based gig workers
The bill proposes to establish a welfare board and a grievance cell for such workers.
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The Karnataka government on Saturday released the draft of a bill that seeks to regulate the social security and welfare of platform-based gig workers in the state.
The Karnataka Platform Based Gig Workers (Social Security and Welfare) Bill, 2024, proposes to establish a welfare board and a grievance cell for workers in the state’s gig economy.
The bill is likely to be tabled in the Monsoon session of the state Assembly this month, The Indian Express reported.
The Congress in Karnataka had promised such a law ahead of the 2023 Assembly election. Rajasthan passed a law on the welfare of gig workers in July last year, becoming the first state to do so.
Indian law defines a gig worker as a “person who performs work or participates in a work arrangement and earns from such activities outside of traditional employer-employee relationship”.
There is no government data on the exact number of gig workers in the country. However, in Karnataka’s Bengaluru alone, nearly two lakh gig workers are attached to various online platforms like Zomato, Porter, Swiggy and Dunzo, according to the The Indian Express.
On Saturday, the state labour department released the draft bill for public consultation before it is tabled in the legislature.
The draft bill says that the objective of the proposed legislation is “to protect the rights of platform based gig workers,...
