Feedback on the Haryana Government’s proposal to set up a welfare board for protection of platform-based mobility workers

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Feedback on the Haryana Government’s proposal to set up a welfare board for protection of platform-based mobility workers

Sudipto

@Sudipto

January 31, 2024

Public Policy

Recently, the Deputy CM of Haryana convened a public consultation meeting to discuss the proposal to make a state level law for social security and welfare of mobility workers operating in the State of Haryana.

Here is the summary of our recommendations.

Recommendation 1:

The State Government of Haryana to consider a short survey in partnership with the industry to:

Estimate the number of mobility workers in the state of Haryana.
Identify the number of state & central government social security schemes available for mobility workers. See here for the list of Haryana Government schemes for unorganised workers.
Ascertain the level of coverage of mobility workers under such schemes.

Recommendation 2:

The State Government of Haryana should organise literacy programs for mobility workers to make them aware & bring on-board such existing social security schemes (both state government and central government).

If a new state law is made, we humbly request the Haryana Government to consider the following:

Recommendation 3:

Any new state law should be aligned with the provisions of the Code on Social Security, 2020 (COSS), it should provide a grand-fathering clause to ensure the law gets subsumed into the COSS, once the same is made effective.

Recommendation 4:

New law should not adopt the cumbersome provisions (like, tracking and monitoring mechanism, cess charged on financial value of each transaction, perpetual registration of workers) as given in the Rajasthan Platform-Based Gig Workers (Registration and Welfare) Act, 2023.

Recommendation 5:

New law should provide clear conditions to ensure registration of mobility workers will not be valid in perpetuity. In other words, clear conditions to be provided in the law which states when registration of mobility workers shall cease to exist.

Recommendation 6:

Provide minimum 30 days’ time to the industry for public consultation and to give feedback on any new law.

Recommendation 7:

The new law should have safeguards to ensure the funds collected from platforms is spent in a timely-manner only for sponsoring social security schemes designed for social security of mobility workers in the state of Haryana.

Please see the attachment for detailed recommendations.

For any query on the above, please write to sudipto@nasscom.in with a copy to policy@nasscom.in.

gig workers mobility workers welfare schemes

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