LABOUR WELFARE

To provide healthy and congenial surroundings. Voluntary efforts of employers to establish working conditions of employees beyond law. Efforts to make life worth living.

SCOPE

Welfare amenities within the ambit of establishments

Welfare amenities outside the establishment

AIMS & OBJECTIVES

To win over employees loyalty An incentive to get greater efficiency

To create an atmosphere of goodwillenhance public image. To save heavy taxes on surplus

Areas of Welfare provisions

Industrial Hygiene Industrial Housing Industrial safety Industrial Health Apprenticeship training Workers education Industrial social work Dispensation for special categories of labour

Social Security

Programme of protection against contingencies of life such as sickness, unemployment, old age, Dependency, Accidents etc A security against risks Security measures aiming at compensation of hardship to sufferer

Statutory Provisons

Protective & welfare legislations:

Factory Act Payment of wages act Minimum wages act Payment of Bonus act Equal remuneration act Contract labour act ESI Act PF Act Payment of Gratuity act Workmen compensation act Maternity benefit act

Social Security Legislations:

Non-Statutory

Medical facilities after retirement Pension after retirement Superannuation fund Group Insurance Rajiv Gandhi Rojgar yojana