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Tuesday, November 11, 2025
TopicGig-economy

Topic: Gig-economy

20% gig workers fail address verification, raising customer safety concern—AuthBridge report

Report highlights that gig workers showed an overall discrepancy rate of 4%. These discrepancies included issues like court record offences and fake identities.

Refine PoSH Act for India’s gig companies. Online businesses have limitations

The liability framework for gig businesses could be aligned with the 'actual knowledge’ standard under section 79 of the Information Technology Act 2000.

Karnataka’s draft bill for gig workers: income security, occupational safety, grievance redressal

Karnataka will be 2nd state after Rajasthan to have legislation for welfare of gig workers. Experts & activists welcome key provisions, including fair terms of contract, mentioned in draft.

85% of platform-based gig workers put in 8 hrs daily but don’t get basic social security — NGO survey

Non-profit's survey of 5,000-plus gig workers engaged with 20-plus platforms finds that these are full-time jobs. Report points to issues of health, income security & lack of regulation.

Govt can’t make gig workers’ welfare all about social security. Choice, flexibility are key

Social security design for platform-based gig workers must be benchmarked against schemes available for the organised and unorganised sectors.

Delhi govt’s newest push toward EVs burdens intermediaries & gig workers. Learn from China

Instead of burdening them with enforcement of State policy, we should be leveraging these intermediaries for their inherent market efficiencies. Norway & China show how.

India’s gig workers need urgent social security. But Gehlot’s new law isn’t the answer

India's experience with Coal Mines Provident Fund and Seamen's Provident Fund should lead us to ask if the idea of a centralised welfare fund is itself problematic, and prone to misuse.

Blinkit deliverymen would rather work for Uber-Ola, run YouTube channels. Dignity comes first

Young delivery executives brave more than just heatwaves and traffic. They also deal with dismissive family members, indifferent employers, hostile guards, and rude customers.

India’s gig workers score a big win. Rajasthan first to budget Rs 200 cr for protection

Gig workers with Uber, Zomato, Urban Company and more will come under the ambit of the act.

Why start-ups are set to give gig economy a big boost in 2023

Gig workers, especially in start-up sector, will make up 4% of India’s total workforce by 2024, up from 1.5% in 2020-21, says report by financial platform StrideOne.

On Camera

The govt’s ‘fix’ to speed up insolvency could add at least a year to the process

The proposed amendment to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code aims to reduce timelines and provide for a mechanism that involves minimal interaction with the court. It fails on both counts.

No more text-heavy ads, wider scope of services—ICAI’s ethics code overhaul to promote Indian CA firms

Open to public feedback until 26 November, the revised guidelines, among other changes, give CA firms more flexibility to advertise & promote their services.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.