The 'Rajasthan Platform Based Gig Workers Act 2023' is hardly the progressive act, it is being made out to be. It seriously fails to address the structural concerns of formalisation of employer-employee relations between the workers and the aggregators. It merely ensures the
creation of a social security fund and mandated digitised registration for all workers. It deliberately eschews any attempts at formalisation of the work process itself. It continues to term the workers as "partners" , locating them as "micro-entrepreneurs" and "independent
contractors" instead of workers. This further weakens the impetus of collective bargaining on the front of the gig workers. It frees the government effectively of any responsibility of making sure that the workplace and work processes of these workers become "formalised."
Transfer-based solutions to structural problems of informality and precarity underlying the current model of economic development can remain at best lesser palliatives and at their worst a reproduction of the very informal spaces themselves.
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