Date: 8 October, 2024
Fairwork India at IIITB’s Center for IT and Public Policy (CITAPP), and the Fairwork Project, announce the release of the Fairwork India Ratings 2024: Labour Standards in the Platform Economy. The report examines the digitally mediated work conditions of India’s rapidly growing app-based workforce using a global benchmark for working conditions in the platform economy. In the sixth year of this study in India, eleven platforms were scored, on a maximum of ten points, on five principles: Fair Pay, Fair Conditions, Fair Contracts, Fair Management, and Fair Representation. This year’s report is spotlights the flexible redefinition of ‘gig’ work by platforms in an ambiguous legal environment.
Fairwork is committed to highlighting the best and worst practices in the platform economy. The Fairwork principles were developed at workshops at the ILO and UNCTAD, bringing together platforms, workers, trade unions, regulators, and academics to set global principles of fair work in the platform economy. Fairwork, at its essence, is a way of imagining a different, and fairer, platform economy than the one we have today. By evaluating platforms against measures of fairness, Fairwork hopes to not just show what the platform economy is, but also what it can be.
Balaji Parthasarathy and Janaki Srinivasan are the Principal Investigators of Fairwork India, while Mounika Neerukonda, Bilahari M, Raktima Kalita, Meghashree Balaraj, and Tony Mathew are the other researchers on the team in India
The report for 2024 is available here.