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Inside the Winter of Discontent for India's Gig Workers -Kaushal Shroff

-TheWire.in

A PIL seeking social security benefits for gig workers and platform workers brings to the front a storm of issues that have festered over the last few years.

There is a storm of discontent brewing within India’s app-based worker community, which the Union government has been sidelining for far too long much to the dismay of the over 15 million gig workers in India.

While the government persists with an apathetic attitude that alienates gig workers – those working for Uber, Ola, Zomato, Swiggy, Urban Company and a host of other apps – their well-being is left at the mercy of a few private companies keen on cutting down cost sub-heads and keeping their obligations to those working on their behalf to the bare minimum.

The living and working conditions of these workers are a testament to how thousands of drivers and delivery workers are forced to compromise with their physical and mental health in order to eke out a barely sustainable wage.

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