New labour codes extend portable social security benefits to gig and platform workers

India’s new labour codes formally recognise gig and platform workers, granting them portable social-security benefits through e-Shram. Aggregators must contribute to a Social Security Fund, enabling access to welfare schemes, accident and health coverage, and structured grievance-redressal support

New Delhi: Gig and platform workers in India will receive formal legal recognition, portable social‑security benefits, and a national registration framework through e-Shram under provisions of the Code on Social Security, 2020, of the new labour codes, the government said on Tuesday.

Under the Social Security code, aggregators are now required to contribute 1–2 per cent of annual turnover, capped at 5 per cent of payments made or payable to gig and platform workers to a Social Security Fund,