The Code on Social Security, 2020: Challenges and Perspective

THE CODE ON SOCIAL SECURITY, 2020 defines "social security" means the measures of protection afforded to employees, unorganised workers, gig workers and platform workers to ensure access to health care and to provide income security, particularly in cases of old age, unemployment, sickness, invalidity, work injury, maternity or loss of a breadwinner by means of rights conferred on them and schemes framed, under the Code of social security 2020; also it define "gig worker" means a person who performs work or participates in a work arrangement and earns from such activities outside of traditional employer-employee relationship. THE CODE ON SOCIAL SECURITY, 2020 is an Act to revise and combine social security legislation with the intention of providing social security to all workers, whether they are employed by organizations or not, or in any other sector, and for issues related to 29 key legislation pertaining to the welfare of the labor sector, including gig workers and other unorganized workers, are intended to be consolidated under the Code. With the goal of providing social security benefits to as many workers as possible in both the organized and unorganized sectors, the Central Government passed the Code on Social Security, 2020 ("Code") in order to update the antiquated labor and employment law laws pertaining to social security.