The Supreme Court has agreed to examine if workers of app services such as Zomato, Swiggy, Uber, Ola cabs and other aggregators should be registered as workmen under Indian law and be provided social security.
The National Restaurant Association of India has filed a case in the Competition Commission of India against anti-competitive practices of Zomato and Swiggy. These have got worse during the pandemic.
As in the case of the new IT rules—aimed at controlling social media majors Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp, as well as digital news portals like The Wire, Scroll and The Quint—the objective behind the draft e-commerce rules is shadowing.
Covid-19 has had a deleterious effect on employment with unemployment going up to 24 percent in May 2020. While some key sectors will be badly hit, others could emerge relatively unscathed