{"id":956333,"date":"2025-08-20T09:02:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T03:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=956333"},"modified":"2025-08-20T09:48:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T04:18:51","slug":"karnataka-passes-bill-to-provide-social-security-for-gig-workers-mandates-welfare-fee-on-aggregators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/20\/karnataka-passes-bill-to-provide-social-security-for-gig-workers-mandates-welfare-fee-on-aggregators\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka passes bill to provide social security for gig workers, mandates welfare fee on aggregators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: In order to provide social security to gig workers who spend most of their working hours on roads, prone to health hazards, the Karnataka Assembly passed the Karnataka Platform-based Gig Workers (Social Security and Welfare) Bill, 2025, on Tuesday. It allows the government to levy a welfare fee of 1 to 5% on aggregators. The Welfare Board will frame the rules and determine the welfare fee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: In order to provide social security to gig workers who spend most of their working hours on roads, prone to health hazards, the Karnataka Assembly passed the Karnataka Platform-based Gig Workers (Social Security and Welfare) Bill, 2025, on Tuesday. It allows the government to levy a welfare fee of 1 to 5% on aggregators. The Welfare Board will frame the rules and determine the welfare fee.<\/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-956333","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\/956333","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=956333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}