New Delhi, Jan. 7 -- Firms in India's gig economy, known as aggregators and platforms, will have to contribute up to 5% of the wages payable to workers as contribution towards a National Social Security Fund and they will have to pay provisional contribution, as assessed, by June 30, the labour ministry's draft rules to operationalise a new social security law show.

According to the draft, gig and platform workers will have to be employed for 90 days with an aggregator in the last financial year to qualify for social security benefits under the Code on Social Security 2020. Workers who take up employment with multiple aggregators will need to be employed for 120 days to avail of the allowances.

The Union government on November 21 last y...