{"id":902246,"date":"2025-02-03T08:47:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T03:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=902246"},"modified":"2025-02-03T09:05:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T03:35:29","slug":"budget-2025-govts-steps-for-gig-workers-half-hearted-india-needs-social-security-architecture-says-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/02\/03\/budget-2025-govts-steps-for-gig-workers-half-hearted-india-needs-social-security-architecture-says-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2025: Govt\u2019s steps for gig workers \u2018half-hearted\u2019, India needs social security architecture, says Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress party criticised the government\u2019s recent steps toward supporting gig workers, calling them \u201chalf-hearted\u201d and insufficient. The party argued that India needs a comprehensive national legal and social security framework for gig workers. <\/p>\n<p>The remarks came after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a social security scheme for one crore gig workers engaged with online platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress party criticised the government\u2019s recent steps toward supporting gig workers, calling them \u201chalf-hearted\u201d and insufficient. The party argued that India needs a comprehensive national legal and social security framework for gig workers. The remarks came after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a social security scheme for one crore gig workers engaged with online platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-902246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}