The government’s notification of the Code on Social Security brings gig and platform workers — such as delivery workers and drivers for Amazon, Flipkart, Swiggy and Zomato — under a formal welfare framework for the first time. It enables their registration on a national database and opens access to schemes covering health, disability, accident insurance and old-age support. It aims to give millions of workers basic protections despite their non-traditional employment structure.

Under the Code on Social Security, 2020, ‘gig workers’, ‘platform workers’, and ‘aggregators’ have been defined for the first time. A gig worker means a person who performs work outside of the traditional employer-employee relationship. A platform worker is a subset of the gig economy, and covers people working wi

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