{"id":287009,"date":"2024-03-14T20:42:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T15:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=287009"},"modified":"2024-03-14T20:42:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T15:12:33","slug":"problems-faced-by-gig-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/problems-faced-by-gig-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Problems faced by Gig workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source<\/strong>-This post on <strong>Problems faced by Gig workers <\/strong>has been created based on the article \u201c<strong>Unstable platforms &#8211; Gig work urgently needs a legal framework<\/strong>\u201d published in \u201c<strong>Business Standard<\/strong>\u201d on 14 March 2024.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPSC Syllabus-GS Paper-3<\/strong>&#8211; Indian Economy and issues relating to Planning, Mobilization of Resources, Growth, Development and Employment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong>&#8211; The survey titled\u201cPrisonerson Wheels\u201d highlighted the plight of cab drivers and delivery persons in India<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is a gig worker?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>According to the Code on Social Security, 2020, A gig worker is a person who performs work or participates in work arrangements and earns from such activities, outside of the traditional employer-employee relationship.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is the status of gig workers in India?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>There are over 7 million gig workers in the country. It may rise to 23.5 million by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Read more- <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/labour-reforms\/#gsc.tab=0\">Labour Reforms<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>What are the issues faced by the gig workers as revealed by the recent survey?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1) <strong>Exploitation at multiple levels<\/strong>-The survey revealed a picture of overwork, financial struggle, caste discrimination, and arbitrary work culture for gig workers.<\/p>\n<p>2) <strong>Underpaid<\/strong>-The majority in both categories, that is cab drivers and delivery persons, have reported low fares and rates with higher premium reductions by platforms.<\/p>\n<p>3) <strong>Toxic work conditions<\/strong>&#8211; There are issues of arbitrary ID deactivation, and customers behaving badly with cab drivers.<\/p>\n<p>4) <strong>Lack of social security provision<\/strong>-They are not provided with social security benefits like accident, health, and retirement benefits<\/p>\n<p>5)<strong> Lack of political will<\/strong>&#8211; One of the labor codes passed by Parliament provides some protection to gig workers. However, the rules have not been framed at the all-India level.<\/p>\n<p>There is a need for robust legislative protection for gig workers.However,the law should not be so stringent that it should stifle the growth of formal employment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question for practice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What are the problems faced by the gig workers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source-This post on Problems faced by Gig workers has been created based on the article \u201cUnstable platforms &#8211; Gig work urgently needs a legal framework\u201d published in \u201cBusiness Standard\u201d on 14 March 2024. UPSC Syllabus-GS Paper-3&#8211; Indian Economy and issues relating to Planning, Mobilization of Resources, Growth, Development and Employment. Context&#8211; The survey titled\u201cPrisonerson Wheels\u201d&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/problems-faced-by-gig-workers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Problems faced by Gig workers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[10503,216,8184],"class_list":["post-287009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-business-standard","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-indian-economy","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}