Labour Min mulls scheme for gig, platform employees, ETCFO
New Delhi, The Ministry of Labour & Employment is engaged on a scheme to supply numerous advantages like social safety to gig and platform employees within the nation, a senior official mentioned on Wednesday. Addressing the CII International Financial Coverage Discussion board, Union Labour Secretary Sumita Dawra mentioned the labour code on social safety has outlined social safety advantages for them.
“We’re placing collectively the scheme for the gig and platform financial system employees as a result of there is no such thing as a conventional employer-employee relationship outlined for the gig and platform employees however we have to carry social safety protection for them in order that they are often extra productive and assist the nation’s financial system and the e-commerce and companies sector extra successfully,” she mentioned.
In October, Union Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya mentioned {that a} coverage for offering social safety advantages like pension and well being companies to gig and platform employees is beneath course of.
He had additionally mentioned that Niti Aayog has estimated 65 lakh gig and platform employees within the nation, however the quantity is more likely to be over 2 crore as this section is rising very quick.
Dawra additionally said that by 2030, the ministry expects greater than 3 crore employees within the gig and platform financial system.
She additionally acknowledged that the ministry is conscious that just about a crore employees are there within the gig and platform financial system and it’ll develop additional.
For the primary time, the definition of ‘gig employees’ and ‘platform employees’ has been offered within the Code on Social Safety 2020.
As per an estimation by Niti Aayog vide its report titled ‘India’s Booming Gig and Platform Financial system’ printed in June 2022, the variety of gig employees and platform employees within the nation was 7.7 million in 2020-21, which is anticipated to rise to 23.5 million by 2029-30.
Concerning the influence of synthetic intelligence (AI) on jobs within the nation, she said that “our sense is that AI is one thing which in all probability must be including to jobs as we see within the auto sector for instance we do have robots which have been introduced in however then the identical labour power has been redeployed to an space the place coaching to make use of these robots or to take care of that equipment is going on.”
She was of the view that there are consultants who’re indicating that AI needn’t essentially disrupt the employment situation in a destructive method so do sit up for the constructive influence of AI on the financial system.
She said that India is an answer to the worldwide labour shortages and as per RBI provisional estimates, the nation has a 643 million sturdy workforce.
There’s a quick formalisation of the workforce, they’re getting into into social safety protection and since 2017 previous couple of years about 7 crore Indians have entered the provident fund pension protection, he identified.
Concerning the Staff’ Linked Incentive (ELI) Scheme, she said that it was introduced within the Price range and is a vital scheme which can assist manufacturing and formalisation of labour power.
“I do hope that the trade will likely be this scheme and will likely be utilizing to make themselves extra aggressive,” she said.
