Expanding Horizon Of Social Security In State Legislation For Unorganised Workers With Special Reference To Gig Workers: A Comparative Study

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Rakesh Kumar Maurya & Prof. (Dr.) Ashok Kumar Sonkar

ABSTRACT

In digital era, gig workers play a very crucial role. The rapid expansion of digital economy, the nature of employment changed. It provides services through platform or apps and during these transactions many intermediary and aggregators are involved such as transportation, food delivery and e- commerce and performing many other services. Despite this, they excluded from traditional employer employee relationship. They have no protection or legal provision from state machinery earlier. But many States such as Rajasthan, Karnataka, Bihar enacted a law for the protection of gig workers and many States such as Telangana and Jharkhand passed a bill in this regard. The Rajasthan is the first State to enacted such kind of law that is the basis of Gig Workers (GW) legislation in India. The Karnataka provides more stringent provisions which is more protective compare to rest. After Bihar also not slow in this regard and considered the welfare of their large population of workers enacted a new legislation with including new technological protective measures. Compare to UK, US and EU, India is not that much advance in protecting the GW, but endeavor to make a stringent law which follow the international standards. Apart from legislature, Indian judiciary also pronounce many landmark judgments in which the apex court recognizes the rights of GW which is considered a law in India. The apex court while pronouncing judgement considered the international standard and principles; and judgment of different countries judicial view which protect the GW.

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