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06 Feb 2025

Pension Scheme For e-Commerce Delivery Agents Soon To Become Reality?

This assumes significance in view of the Budget announcement earlier this month by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman about rolling out of a social security scheme for one crore gig workers engaged with online platforms.

02 Feb 2025

Good News For Gig Workers As Nirmala Sitharaman Announces Major Benefits

Budget 2025: Notably, the scheme has no restrictions on family size, age, or gender, ensuring that all eligible individuals receive the care they need.

Karnataka government

19 Oct 2024

Karnataka Imposes Cess On Aggregator Platform Transactions To Support Gig Work

The state government has already drafted a bill to protect the rights of platform-based gig workers.

24 Sep 2022

Rajeev Chandrasekhar supports moonlighting, says 'This is the future of work'

Minister of State for Electronics and IT and Skill Development Rajeev Chandrasekhar backs moonlighting. 'Days are long gone when employees signed up with big tech majors and spent their lives on the job', he says. Moonlighting meaning taking side gigs or projects along with a regular job secretively.

25 Dec 2021

14 crore informal workers registered on e-Shram portal

This is nearly one-third of the total workforce in informal sector in India. It includes construction workers, migrant workers, gig workers and platform workers, street vendors, domestic workers, agriculture workers, etc.

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