{"id":400244,"date":"2026-11-02T10:30:51","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T05:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=400244"},"modified":"2026-11-02T10:34:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T05:04:53","slug":"government-notifies-national-social-security-board-gig-platform-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2026\/11\/02\/government-notifies-national-social-security-board-gig-platform-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Notifies National Social Security Board for Unorganised, Gig and Platform Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Ministry of Labour and Employment, on <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">30 October 2026<\/span>, notified the constitution of the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">National Social Security Board for Unorganised Workers and Gig and Platform Workers<\/span> under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-9000630911\" target=\"_blank\">Code on Social Security, 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Board will be chaired by the Union Minister for Labour and Employment and comprise representatives from the Central and State Governments, aggregator companies, employers, civil society organisations, workers&#8217; unions and gig and platform worker associations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Board will recommend and monitor welfare schemes for unorganised workers, gig workers and platform workers. It will also advise the Central Government on matters arising out of the administration of the Code and review the implementation and expenditure of social welfare schemes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Board to meet at least thrice a year<\/p>\n<p>The National Social Security Board will meet at least three times a year and follow the rules of procedure prescribed by the Central Government for the transaction of business at its meetings. Its functions include:<\/p>\n<ol style=\"list-style-type: decimal;\">\n<li>\n<p>Recommending to the Central Government suitable social security schemes for different sections of unorganised workers, gig workers and platform workers.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Advising the Central Government on matters arising out of the administration of the Code that may be referred to it.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Monitoring social welfare schemes for these categories of workers administered by the Central Government.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Reviewing record-keeping functions performed at the State level.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Reviewing expenditure from the fund and account.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">Undertaking other functions assigned by the Central Government.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Statutory framework under the Code on Social Security, 2020<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">Section <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-9000630842\" target=\"_blank\">6<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-9000630911\" target=\"_blank\">Code on Social Security, 2020<\/a> provides for the constitution of the National Social Security Board for unorganised workers. Section 114(6) further provides that the Board constituted under Section 6 shall also serve as the Board for the welfare of gig workers and platform workers, subject to the specified changes in its membership.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">Section 114(1) empowers the Central Government to frame and notify social security schemes for gig workers and platform workers covering life and disability protection, accident insurance, health and maternity benefits, old-age protection, cr&egrave;che facilities and other benefits determined by the Central Government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-9000630911\" target=\"_blank\">Code on Social Security, 2020<\/a>, which introduced statutory recognition of gig workers and platform workers and provided for their social security, came into force on <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">21 November 2025<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Board will provide an institutional framework for coordinating and overseeing social security measures for unorganised workers, gig workers and platform workers. Through its recommendations on welfare schemes, monitoring of their implementation, and review of expenditure and State-level record-keeping, it will play an important role in advancing the social security framework envisaged under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-9000630911\" target=\"_blank\">Code on Social Security, 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Board will recommend and monitor welfare schemes, advise the Central Government and review social security expenditure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67547,"featured_media":400247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1193],"tags":[93154,43629,38749,40236,118493,99036,66000,59378,118495,118494],"class_list":["post-400244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legislationupdates","category-notifications","tag-code-on-social-security-2020","tag-gig-workers","tag-labour-codes","tag-ministry-of-labour-and-employment","tag-national-social-security-board","tag-platform-workers","tag-section-114","tag-section-6","tag-social-security-schemes","tag-unorganised-workers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.1 (Yoast SEO v28.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Centre Notifies National Social Security Board | SCC Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Ministry of Labour notified the National Social Security Board for unorganised, gig and platform workers under the Code on Social Security, 2020, on 30 October 2026.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2026\/11\/02\/government-notifies-national-social-security-board-gig-platform-workers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Government Notifies National Social Security Board for Unorganised, Gig and Platform Workers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Ministry of Labour notified the National Social Security Board for unorganised, gig and platform workers under the Code on Social Security, 2020, on 30 October 2026.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2026\/11\/02\/government-notifies-national-social-security-board-gig-platform-workers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SCC Times\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scc.online\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-11-02T05:00:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-11-02T05:04:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/National-Social-Security-Board.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"886\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"590\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Roushan K. 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