The UK Government is pushing forward an amendment under the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill to extend Right-to-Work checks to gig economy and agency workers—a group previously exempt. This reform will make platforms in delivery, ride-hailing, and domestic sectors verify legal employment eligibility, aligning them with formal hiring standards.
South Asian platforms and policymakers—from India, Bangladesh, and Nepal—are observing closely as gig labor rights and obligations evolve in a fast-changing digital economy.
