Aggregator may face a prison term if he fails to pay the performance workers’ welfare fund in the Telangana draft

According to a draft bill proposed by the Telangana government, a platform that fails to pay the welfare fund fees to the proposed Telangana show and platform staff welfare committee may be penalized, up to one year, or fines up to one year, or fines up to Rs 2 lakh or both. The bill says the government should charge 1-2% of the benefits fund fees for Telangana performances and platform workers, assemblers or platforms, break-even, to workers in each transaction or may be notified.

The draft bill proposes that the aggregated person provide the board with a database of all its performances and platform workers and board or register within 60 days from the date of legislation.

“If someone becomes aggregator/platform/primary employer/company, etc., he will not be able to pay the welfare fund fees he is responsible for paying under this Act, rules, provisions, regulations or plans, and shall be subject to penalties for imprisonment, and that term may be extended to one year or a fine, which may be extended to 2 million kilometers, or both.”
If any aggregater fails or refuses to submit any return, report, statement or any other information required by the proposed bill, a fine shall be imposed and the penalty may be extended to Rs 50,000.

Chief Minister Revanth Reddy on Monday directed officials to comment on the draft bill aimed at providing social security to show and platform staff and finalize it after suggestions, suggestions and objections are made.

Officials have been asked to make the necessary arrangements to develop a draft bill on May 1 (May 1), or International Workers’ Day stressed that it was a poll promise by the Congress party during the 2023 congress poll. The board will be led by Minister Telangana, responsible for the representatives of the platform and workers. The offences under the proposed bill are identifiable, bailable and complex, and no court is inferior to the first-class magistrate, shall be tried for any offence punished under this Act.

Aggregators/platforms should take measures to prevent discrimination based on religion, race, caste, gender or place of birth or deployed by automated monitoring and decision making systems.