GIG & PLATFORM WORKERS UNDER THE CODE ON SOCIAL SECURITY, 2020
AUTHOR – PRIYANKA. B, STUDENT AT SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE IN LAW, TAMILNADU DR. AMBEDKAR LAW UNIVERSITY, CHENNAI
BEST CITATION – PRIYANKA. B, GIG & PLATFORM WORKERS UNDER THE CODE ON SOCIAL SECURITY, 2020, INDIAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL REVIEW (IJLR), 6 (9) OF 2026, PG. 1031-1037, APIS – 3920 – 0001 & ISSN – 2583-2344.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Code on Social Security, 2020 (SS Code) constitutes the most significant reform in India’s labour welfare architecture in decades, consolidating nine pre-existing statutes into a single framework. Its most consequential and contested innovation is the formal inclusion of gig workers and platform workers as distinct statutory categories. This brief examines three interlocking research dimensions: (1) the scope and limits of coverage under the SS Code; (2) the architecture, funding, and operationalisation of the dedicated Social Security Fund; and (3) the definitional ambiguities and structural gaps that threaten the Code’s protective intent — in particular, the unresolved problem of multi-platform workers who remain legally invisible despite the Code’s ambitions.