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    Digital labor platforms provide online work opportunities but lack fundamental labor protections. They include web-based platforms for content creation and location-based platforms like ride-hailing and food delivery apps. While offering flexible work, platforms face criticism for downward pressure on earnings without benefits like collective bargaining or social security. COVID-19 exacerbated these issues while platforms also helped address mass unemployment. International organizations call for regulations ensuring transparency, fair contracts, and basic rights and protections for platform workers.

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    Digital labor platforms provide online work opportunities but lack fundamental labor protections. They include web-based platforms for content creation and location-based platforms like ride-hailing and food delivery apps. While offering flexible work, platforms face criticism for downward pressure on earnings without benefits like collective bargaining or social security. COVID-19 exacerbated these issues while platforms also helped address mass unemployment. International organizations call for regulations ensuring transparency, fair contracts, and basic rights and protections for platform workers.

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    Digital labor platforms provide online work opportunities but lack fundamental labor protections. They include web-based platforms for content creation and location-based platforms like ride-hailing and food delivery apps. While offering flexible work, platforms face criticism for downward pressure on earnings without benefits like collective bargaining or social security. COVID-19 exacerbated these issues while platforms also helped address mass unemployment. International organizations call for regulations ensuring transparency, fair contracts, and basic rights and protections for platform workers.

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    Digital labor platforms provide online work opportunities but lack fundamental labor protections. They include web-based platforms for content creation and location-based platforms like ride-hailing and food delivery apps. While offering flexible work, platforms face criticism for downward pressure on earnings without benefits like collective bargaining or social security. COVID-19 exacerbated these issues while platforms also helped address mass unemployment. International organizations call for regulations ensuring transparency, fair contracts, and basic rights and protections for platform workers.

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    Digital Labour

    Platforms: A Threat to
    Fundamental Rights?
     Digital Labour Platforms are digital platforms,
    which provide a wide variety of opportunities to
    many people to work from their comfort, from any
    place, at any time, and take jobs which suit their
    different talent and skills.
    Digital Labor Platforms include both:
     Web-based Platforms
     Location-based Platforms
    Web-based Platforms:
     Web based platforms are completely online and help
    people find work mostly related to the area of content
    writing, digital art, and other website related labour.
     Examplesfor Web based platforms: Pinterest, Udemy,
    WordPress etc.
    Location-based Platforms:

     Location based platforms are created by combining various data


    such as satellite navigation systems, cellular networks, and mobile
    computing, to provide services based on the geographical locations
    of users.
     Examples for Location based platforms: Uber, Swiggy, Zomato and
    Ola etc.
    The Impact of COVID-19

     Digital Labour platforms has been a boon to the unemployed that it


    provided various employment opportunities in various fields be it,
    food delivery, taxi service, and other service providers, etc.
     There was a large scale of unemployment during Covid, as due to
    the lockdowns many industries and businesses faced a huge
    financial loss which ultimately forced them to cut down the labour
    as they were no longer able to afford the same. As a result, many
    employers lost their jobs and found it very difficult to keep up with
    the financial stress.
    Positive and Negative Impacts of Digital
    Labour Platforms
     Digital Labour Platforms open up more and wide variety of huge opportunities for
    people who struggle to find job among the competitive traditional work field
    those of whom include women, people with disabilities, young people and
    migrant workers
     Implementation of digital labour platforms also comes with greater deal of
    challenges, due to increase in the labour supply on digital labour platforms there
    is a downward pressure on earnings. There is an inadequate protection provided as
    people who provide labour for web-based platforms do not have access to
    workplace protections and entitlements, the working conditions are majorly
    provided in the agreement, therefore there is only an existence of contractual
    relationship and not any other protection.
    A Barrier to Fundamental Labour Rights

     As the master-servant relationship is purely contractual the labours


    do not have any rights outside of the same. Digital Platform Labours
    are often unable to engage in collective bargaining. And majority of
    them do not have social security coverage. The International Labour
    Organisation stated that “workers in the app-based taxi and delivery
    sectors, particularly woman, face various occupational safety and
    health risk. Not having social security coverage has created
    significant challenges for all platform workers during the COVID-
    19 pandemic, especially those on location-based platforms.”
    Conclusion

     According to the International Labour Organisation in order to


    address this risk there requires a coordination from the
    policymakers, private sectors and regulators etc. By introducing
    more clear and transparent terms in the contractual agreement, to
    ensure that the status of the employees are according to the
    “National Classification system”, ensuring transparency, fair
    termination process, work on the anti-discrimination and
    occupational safety and health laws etc.

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