To create these many jobs, there is a need to create the conditions for faster growth of productive jobs outside of agriculture, especially in organised manufacturing and services.
bigbasket, Flipkart, and Urban Company were the only platforms with a minimum wage policy to ensure workers earn at least hourly local minimum wage, shows Fairwork India 2023 report
E-commerce continues to be the highest employer of women frontline workers in FY23, contributing to 64% of the total women workers employed
In India's bustling cities, traffic congestion has posed a serious problem to delays and inefficiencies in last-mile deliveries
The gig economy is continuously evolving and has seen 93% growth since Jan 2023 in the white-collar space as of July 2023
In minimum standards of fair work, Urban Company scored the highest 7 out of 10, followed by Bigbasket, Flipkart, Swiggy and Zomato.
It is bringing back “multifactor, totality-of-the-circumstances analysis” to determine if a worker is dependent on the employer and the business, or independent of them to qualify as gig worker
With the world going digital, there is a boom in demand for trained IT professionals and gig workers.
As several reports attest, India is seeing a rise in gig economy jobs, both in the blue-collar and white-collar segments, with the pandemic accelerating this trend.
In Budget 2021, Nirmala Sitharaman proposes to launch a portal that will collect data on the unorganised workforce in the country to formulate health, housing, insurance, and credit schemes.
