New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday sought response from the Centre, Uber and Zomato, among other app-based service providers, on a plea by an association of transport workers seeking social security rights available under the law for workers in the unorganized sector. ,
The petition by the Indian Federation of App-Based Transport Workers (IFAT) has sought formulation of welfare schemes for such workers like health insurance, maternity benefit, pension, old age support, disability allowance and vaccination at aggregators’ cost on a priority basis. Is.
Justice L. Nageswara Rao and Justice B. R. The bench of Gavai, after hearing the arguments of senior advocate Indira Jaising, appearing for IFAT, said, “We will issue notice. The matter will be heard after four weeks.
Jaising said that drivers or delivery workers have also been requested to be declared workers under the schemes of the Unorganized Workers Act and all social welfare schemes made for the labor body. He said that the benefits received by the workers of the unorganized sectors should also be made available to them.
In this regard, he referred to the decision of the UK’s top court and said that the job contracts were analyzed and it was found that the persons employed with Uber were in fact workers. And the Ministry of Industries, Food and Public Distribution, Electronics has also been made a party.
The petition seeks to declare that “”gig workers” and “app-based workers” fall under the definition of ‘unorganized workers’ of the Unorganized Workers Act and are therefore entitled to statutory welfare benefits.(agency)