What is the rise of the gig economy greatly benefits the new generation of employees, as it provides them with new job opportunities and multiple sources of income. It is a common trend for fresh graduates who move out of smaller towns and cities and take up gig work to make ends meet till they land a permanent job. Organizations are also opting for temporary professionals over training their own employees for a specific skill set. What solutions can be offered for gig workers like Rahul?

gig workers can be defined as the workers who are engaged on unstructured basis either medium to semi skilled forming core of informal economies.

Structure:

Ethical issues involved:

Financing stability vs society status

Work satisfaction vs living family responsibilities

Formalization of economy

Hampering of workers employability

Unused stress and work becoming business

Working class participating vs Bourgeois accumulation of wealth

Limitations of welfare state and government

Measures to resolve the problem:

more responsibilities if government on big scale contract there.

through classes such as Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Yojana etc.

through missing under lending practics

through adherence to code of ethics & code of conduct.

Wage enhancement → through enforcement of minimum wages at site.

Skill development → through classes such as Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Yojana etc.

Availability of credit → through missing under lending practics

Enforcement of business ethics → through adherence to code of ethics & code of conduct.

Proper development of educational institutions → through reducing glass out rates

Employment securing → through overall economic development.

The problem of gig workers should be on the basis of bold bills for maxim of not killing anyone just through the acts of society.

— Sudipa Dutta · AIR 41