Gig workers bill karnatka
It does not address employment relations in gig work, thereby affecting the application of crucial and protective labour laws
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Gig worker bill Karnataka
Last month, Karnataka introduced a new Bill, called the draft Karnataka Platform-based Gig Workers (Social Security and Welfare) Bill, 2024.
seeking to provide social security and welfare measures for platform-based gig workers in the State.
a similar law was also enacted by Rajasthan called the Rajasthan Platform Based Gig Workers (Registration and Welfare) Act, 2023.
karnataka and rajasthan bill
The Karnataka Bill has a distinct similarity with the Rajasthan legislation in the sense that both are based on a welfare board model.
This model does not address
employment relations as such and is more appropriate for self-employed informal workers.
In the case of gig work, addressing employment relations is the need of the hour.
The rise of gig work versus work issues
app-cab and retail delivery sectors
The number of gig and platform workers is on the rise, more so in the last decade with developments in the app-cab and retail delivery sectors.
gig workforce expanding
NITI Aayog has made projections of the gig workforce expanding to 23.5 million workers by 2030.
gig work is one sector that is providing a livelihood to an increasingly large number of job-seekers. Such trends are also visible in other countries.
India has seen protests by gig workers
on the issue of
- revenue sharing,
- working hours and
- various other working conditions and
- terms of employment.
Those who run the platform
prefer to call themselves as aggregators and consider gig workers as independent contractors/workers.
Aggregators believe that they are providing the technology and bringing together independent workers and consumers. Independent workers are masters of their own work, according to aggregators.
workers in the gig economy what they face
1 consider aggregators as their employers as the conditions of service and terms of employment are set by the aggregators.
2 For example
in an app-cab operation, the price of the ride is determined by the app/aggregator and the entire ecosystem of working conditions
and terms for the ride are decided by the app company only.
In this context, gig workers seek fair treatment, improved working conditions, and access to social security as legal entitlement.
U.K. ruling
in Britain, the United Kingdom Supreme Court
ruled that Uber is an employer and that the existing labour laws of the U.K. do apply to Uber drivers.
In India, gig and platform workers
are included in Code on Social Security 2020 as a kind of informal self-employed workers but no mention of such workers has been made in the other three new labour codes, namely Code on Wages, Industrial Relations Code and Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code.
The Rajasthan and Karnataka pieces of legislation are recent additions to this legal landscape.
but here also has use term ‘aggregator’ for app companies rather than employer.
Without the recognition of employment relations
protective labour laws that ensure a
- minimum wage,
- occupational safety and health,
- working hours
- and leave entitlements,
- and the right to collective bargaining cannot be applied.
they demands
There is no guarantee on minimum earnings from gig work even when a worker is available for the greater part of the day. There is no regulation on working hours also.
There are regular incidents of overworked app cab drivers being involved in accidents late in the night or early in the morning.
Core issues
The welfare board model by state
adopted by Rajasthan and Karnataka provides some welfare schemes for gig workers,
but it does not replace
institutional social security benefits such as provident fund, gratuity, or maternity benefits, which regular workers are legally entitled to.
Historically, welfare board models have been poorly implemented, as evidenced by the Construction Workers Welfare Act of 1996 and the Unorganized Workers Social Security Act, where funds were available but inadequately used.
The Karnataka Bill does not address
the issue of
- minimum wages or
- working hours for gig workers.
- a minimum income,
- wage entitlements,
- or revenue sharing between aggregators and gig workers.
fails to address the employment relationship
The proposed Karnataka Bill, like the Code on Social Security, 2020 and the Rajasthan Act 2023, fails to address the employment relationship in the gig economy. This oversight confuses employment relations and absolves employers of legal obligations, making it difficult to fully protect workers’ rights.
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