{"id":930143,"date":"2025-05-13T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=930143"},"modified":"2025-05-13T07:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T02:01:09","slug":"telangana-gig-platform-workers-call-for-stronger-protection-algorithmic-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/13\/telangana-gig-platform-workers-call-for-stronger-protection-algorithmic-transparency\/","title":{"rendered":"Telangana gig, platform workers call for stronger protection, algorithmic transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: Traditionally, gig and platform workers have been defined as individuals engaged in short-term, freelance work without long-term commitment to any single employer. However, in Telangana\u2019s evolving digital economy, this definition is rapidly becoming outdated. A growing number of workers now rely on gig work \u2014 delivered via platforms such as ride-hailing, food delivery, and logistics apps \u2014 not as a side hustle, but as their primary and full-time source of income. Recognising this shift, worker unions in the state are calling for a redefinition of the term \u201cgig and platform worker\u201d to better reflect the lived realities and economic contributions of this workforce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: Traditionally, gig and platform workers have been defined as individuals engaged in short-term, freelance work without long-term commitment to any single employer. However, in Telangana\u2019s evolving digital economy, this definition is rapidly becoming outdated. A growing number of workers now rely on gig work \u2014 delivered via platforms such as ride-hailing, food delivery, and logistics apps \u2014 not as a side hustle, but as their primary and full-time source of income. Recognising this shift, worker unions in the state are calling for a redefinition of the term \u201cgig and platform worker\u201d to better reflect the lived realities and economic [&hellip;]<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-930143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930143","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=930143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}