The coronavirus (COVID) pandemic of 2019 has highlighted the critical importance of a growing platform economy and the vital role of platforms and the workers who scaffold it. As in many parts of the world, labour market conditions in post-COVID India are expected to amplify their precarity. This paper takes stock of the Indian legal landscape on labour protection for platform workers, identifying the specific lacunae that disenfranchise them while delineating immediate, short-term remedies within the contours of existing legislation, as well as medium-term goalposts for transformative legal and policy change.