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ABSTRACT The term gig relates to the labours outside of the traditional employee and employer relationship, it's a slag term which means a temporary job or a job for particular period of time. This includes contractual employees, project-based workers, freelancers and short term-based workers. With today's digitalization there is increase in demand of mobile workforce where employees can choose temporary jobs around the globe and can find suitable candidate without any geographical limitation for each job. Without being on companies' payroll, the gig workers confer the services like accountant, tutor, e-commerce site's delivery agents, service provider, artist and anyone who come into contractual obligation with a company. They are found across every industry. The employers in gig economy provide flexibility in work life, balance in work and lifestyle and freedom to choose the gigs and profiles they are interested in where one after the other the gig employees are provided with little or no health or retirement benefits, tax complexities and non-remunerated business expenses also it saves company resources like office space, training programme and company benefits. There is a thin difference between people who work voluntarily and one who are taken advantage by an employer in a contractual agreement. NITI Aayog had evaluated around 47% of the gig work is in medium skilled jobs, about 22% in high skilled and about 31% in low skilled jobs on a study "India's Booming Gig and Platform Economy" the trending example of the gig workers are the startups like Swiggy, Zomato, Ola and Uber. These startups are the main source of providing gig workers in Indian economy. In research studies by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) have indicated that participation in the gig economy is higher in developing countries (5- 12%) versus developed economies (1-4 percent). Abundance of these jobs are in kind of job with limited- income such as ridesharing, delivery person, wellness, caretakers and microtasks. The paper discusses various notion relating to social rights and protection related to gig workers. Also, in this paper we will analyze the legal frame work of gig workers around the globe. The rise in change of traditional workers to the gig workers create the need for proper legislative rights and authority to hear the problems and provide the solution for the gig workers with the dynamic change in the world. On one side the employers of online platform companies like Amazone, Flipkart, Swiggy and Zomato are in benefits, as they can easily appoint, transfer or dismiss the gig workers as per to their wish on the other hand, gig workers are in drawback as they are not considered permanent employees like any other employees under Indian contract act nor they are provided with any benefits like any other permanent employees in a company. Hence this paper discusses various variability of the gig workers in today's world.