Finally, gig workers have pan-India social security

The implementation of the Digital Personal (DPDP) rules is expected to drive a sharp rise in technology and compliance spending across enterprises, with industry estimates indicating a 10–30% increase in IT and tech budgets, depending on organisational scale and data maturity.  “As such, aggregators who consider gig and platform workers engaged by them as independent contractors and do not provide social security benefits on this basis will now be required to provide such benefits to such workers,” said Minu Dwivedi, partner, JSA Advocates & Solicitors. Read more