When, in April this year, Rajasthan released a draft of the Rajasthan Platform Based Gig Workers (Registration and Welfare) Act, 2023 (Bill) - a bill meant to promote gig worker welfare - it was received with great fanfare. The media heralded it as a first for Indian states, describing it as a “move to unburden gig and platform workers’ vulnerabilities”. Union leaders predicted that the law would become a “model for the world”....