The Karnataka government Tuesday formed a 16-member welfare board to provide social security to gig and platform workers in the state, facilitating app-based aggregators and e-commerce service providers to deposit their share with the newly constituted body.
Karnataka forms gig workers’ welfare board
All aggregators will have to pay a welfare fee in the range of 1-1.5 percent of the transaction, which was downward revised from the earlier proposal of 5 percent made in April last year.