US EditionLawmakers Aim to Get Gig Workers More Benefits. Here's What We Know
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Maharashtra To Establish Social Security Laws For 'Gig Workers'
Maharashtra Labour Minister Akash Fundkar said 'gig workers' or those who work for online 'platforms' or companies such as Zomato need social security, and the state government will come up with a law for them.
Karnataka frames draft Platform-Based Gig Workers Rules, 2025 - Business Manager
On June 30, 2025, the Government of Karnataka released the draft Karnataka Platform-Based Gig Workers (Social Security and Welfare) Rules, 2025 (“Draft Karnataka Platform-Based Gig Workers Rules, 2025”). The Draft Karnataka Platform-Based Gig Workers Rules, 2025 provide for the establishment of a welfare board with structured governance processes, including quarterly meetings, reporting mechanisms, and financial accountability measures. Aggregat…
In an exclusive interview for Merca2.0, Isabella Mariño, Director of Corporate Affairs at Rappi Mexico, outlined the relevance of this change to the formalization of digital work and the challenges it entails for all parties.
Claudia Ivett has a conversation with Luisa Obrador, Director of Incorporation and Collection of the Mexican Social Security Institute and Alejandro Salafranca, Head of the Decent Work Unit of the Secretariat of Labor. To whom does the reform in the field of work benefit in digital platforms? Does it force workers to meet fixed schedules? Do workers pay more taxes? All the answers in “Su Voz, Su Tiempo”.
On July 1st, a pilot test began to grant workers of digital platforms access to social security and housing; however, in tax matters, collaborators are not recognized as direct employees of companies, which opens a great contradiction, since as they are not accredited there is also no obligation to pay quotas to IMSS and Infonavit. In the reform of the Federal Labour Law (LFT), which regulates jobs in digital platforms, pilot programs of IMSS an…
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