Bengaluru: Two months after passing the Karnataka Platform-based Gig Workers’ (Social Security and Welfare) Bill, which mandates levying a 1-5% cess per transaction on aggregators, the labour department is yet to finalise the quantum of cess for different aggregators.

As per the Act, the cess will be levied on aggregator platforms like Swiggy, Zomato, Ola and Uber, which employ gig workers.

It mandates varied welfare fees for different categories of aggregators, which have their own mechanisms of channeling customers’ payments.

After passing the Act, the next phase is to publish rules. G Manjunath, additional labour commissioner, said there had been extensive pre-legislative consultations to take along all stakeholders.

“Aggregators like Swiggy and Zomato have initiated social security

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