ABSTRACT:
The concern of social security for unorganised worker has come into debate during Covid period. The paper evaluates the origin of social security acts and government initiatives for unorganised worker. Post liberalisation India has witnessed transformation and changes in working class due to increase of causalisation of work force in both the sector organised or unorganised. In this backdrop the paper seeks to study the social security issues. It analyse the problems and issues of social security in the present-day context of economic reform. The government’s years neglected unorganised workers rights and social security issues. This paper broadly reviews the unorganised worker’s social security Act, 2008 recommended by the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector (nceus), alongwith new Social Security Code 2020 and the present status.
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Vikas Kumar. Unorganised workers and Social Security: Review of Unorganised Worker’s Social Security Act 2008 and Social Security Code 2020. Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. 2026;17(2):114-8. doi: 10.52711/2321-5828.2026.00022
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Vikas Kumar. Unorganised workers and Social Security: Review of Unorganised Worker’s Social Security Act 2008 and Social Security Code 2020. Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. 2026;17(2):114-8. doi: 10.52711/2321-5828.2026.00022 Available on: https://www.rjhssonline.com/AbstractView.aspx?PID=2026-17-2-5
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