THE DRAFT Telangana Platform-Primarily based Gig Staff Coverage, 2024, has proposed minimal wages, an unintentional insurance coverage of Rs 5 lakh and a compulsory well being cowl for employees in app-based gig and platform corporations.
The draft coverage, accessed by The Indian Express, additionally requires contributions by aggregator corporations in direction of a fund that will likely be managed by a board and used for the welfare of employees. Apart from, it recommends contributory previous age pension, a contributory wage compensation scheme, scholarships for kids of employees, and maternity advantages.
In keeping with the coverage, employees will likely be registered with the federal government on an App. “We’ll quickly launch the App and the employees will likely be allowed to self-declare their primary particulars together with the platforms they’re linked to. It will then be cross-verified with the platforms and the registration course of will likely be full,” E Gangadhar, Extra Commissioner of Labour, Telangana, informed The Indian Categorical.
The coverage will likely be legitimate for 3 years after which a overview will likely be undertaken to find out its scale and impression. “We’ll finalise the coverage solely after stakeholder consultations. All suggestions of the draft coverage will likely be mentioned at size in June,” Gangadhar stated.
The coverage, drafted by Discussion board for Good Governance, an NGO, in session with the state labour division, additionally requires aggregator platforms to register with the state authorities — transport division, within the case of journey sharing aggregators, and labour division, within the case of meals supply platforms.
Apart from these employed with journey sharing and meals and grocery delivering providers, the coverage would cowl these working with logistic providers similar to Rapido, e-marketplace providers, healthcare service suppliers, journey and hospitality providers, content material and media providers, and every other platforms offering items and providers.
Whereas the coverage goals to supply primary social safety to gig employees, it doesn’t contact upon severance pay, a key subject on this sector, given the various cases of abstract termination of employees. When requested, Gangadhar stated, “The aggregator corporations don’t outline their relationship with employees by way of an worker and an employer; they simply time period it as a ‘partnership’.”
Nonetheless, the coverage does say the federal government would specify minimal wages for the employees. “The federal government will notify minimal wages for all employees below every class of the gig economic system,” states the draft coverage.
Additional, aggregator providers similar to Ola, Uber, Swiggy and Zomato, amongst others, should present unintentional insurance coverage of Rs 5 lakh to gig employees on job. It additionally calls upon the aggregators to contribute a price based mostly on their annual turnover in direction of a welfare fund for employees. This fund could also be managed by a welfare board.
The coverage additionally recommends establishing grievance redressal mechanisms on the firm degree and on the state degree for the employees. Every aggregator ought to have a dispute decision committee, the coverage states.
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