Introduction

The Government of Rajasthan, on July 24, 2023, passed the Rajasthan Platform Based Gig Workers (Registration and Welfare) Act, 2023 (“Act”). With this initiative, Rajasthan has become the first state in India to pass a legislation, which regulates the engagement of gig workers and aims to provide social security and other benefits to platform-based gig workers.

While at the Central level, the Code on Social Security, 2022 (“SS Code”), recognises gig and platform workers (essentially those workers who work on online aggregator platforms) as a separate class of workers and seeks to extend a variety of benefits to them, the same is yet to be brought in force.Continue Reading Rajasthan passes Rajasthan Platform Based Gig Workers (Registration and Welfare) Act, 2023