Definition

❖The Second Asian Regional Conference of ILO, stated Labour Welfare

as “such services, facilities and amenities which may be established in or
in the vicinity of undertakings to enable the persons employed in them to
perform their work in healthy and peaceful surroundings and to avail of
facilities which improve their health and high morale.”

❖ According to Balfour committee, “Labour Welfare refers to the

efforts made by the employers to improve the working and living
conditions over and above the wages paid to them. In its widest sense it
comprises all matters affecting the health, safety, comfort and general
welfare of the workmen, and includes provision for education,
recreation, thrift schemes, convalescent homes”.
 Approaches to Labour Welfare

Policing Religion Philanthropic

Theory Theory Theory

Social Labour Paternalistic

Theory Welfare Theory

Public
Functional Placating
Relations
Theory Theory
Theory
Objectives of Labour Welfare
❖ To increase efficiency and productivity among workers
❖ To improve moral & loyalty

❖ To build up stable labour force and to lower turnover & absenteeism

❖ To earn goodwill and enhance public image

❖ To reduce the influence of union

❖ To attract efficient employees

❖To reduce the threat of further government intervention.

❖ High standards of work, apart from other labour legislations.

❖ Improvement in Quality of work life (QWL)

❖ Improve the Industrial system, and conditions of work.

❖ Enhance sense of belonging, responsibility and dignity among the employees.

❖ Improvement and Development of employees.

 Labour Welfare Activities

Statutory Voluntary Extra-Mural Intra-Mular

Enforceable Employer Outside the Inside the

by Law takes on his Factory Factory
own
Intra-Mural & Extra-Mural Welfare Activities

INTRA-MURAL EXTRA-MURAL
✓ Drinking Water ✓ Housing
✓ Toilets ✓ Education
✓ Crèches ✓ Maternity
✓ Washing and bathing facilities ✓ Transportation
✓ Rest shelters ✓ Sports
✓ Uniform and protective clothing ✓ Leave Travel
✓ Recreation facilities ✓ Vocational training
✓ Canteens ✓ Holiday homes
✓ Subsidized food ✓ Cooperative stores
✓ Medical aid ✓ Fair price shops
✓ Social insurance
 SOCIAL SECURITY IN INDIA

✓ Workmen’s Compensation Act 1923

✓ Employee State Insurance Act, 1948
✓ Employee Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952
✓ Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972
✓ Industrial Disputes Act, 1947
✓ Maternity Benefit Act, 1961
✓ The Seaman’s Provident Fund Act, 1966 (Under this, worker’s
contribution of 12 percent with an equal contribution from the employers
are entitled to a full refund on retirement or after 15 years of
membership).
✓The Plantation Labour Act, 1951 (The benefits statutorily provided
under this Act include the provision of drinking water and its
conservancy, medical facilities, canteen in the case of 150 or more
workers, crèches in case of 50 or more women workers, recreational
facilities, umbrellas, blanket and rain coats. Cash benefits in the case of
sickness and maternity).
 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH ( ILO/WHO)
➢ Promote and maintain the highest degree of
physical, mental & social well-being of workers of all
occupations

➢ Prevent workers from departures due to health

caused by their working conditions

➢ Protect workers in their working environment from

hazards and risks usually causing adverse health
effects

➢ Place and maintain a worker in an occupational

environment adapted to his/her physiological ability
Importance
✓ Reduces the absenteeism & labour turnover rate

✓ Improves the efficiency

✓ Reduces the indiscipline

✓ Lessen the industrial discontent

✓ Improve motivation and morale

✓ Reduce the industrial unrest

Industrial Hygiene

“That science and art devoted to the anticipation,

recognition, evaluation, and control of those environmental
factors and stresses arising in or from the workplace,
which may cause sickness, impaired health and well-being,
or significant discomfort among workers or among citizens
of the community” (American Industrial Hygiene
Association - AIHA)
Occupational Hazard

Any source of potential damage, harm or adverse

health effects on something or someone under
certain conditions at work.
Kinds of Hazards

✓ Chemical

✓ Physical

✓ Biological

✓ Ergonomics

✓ Psychological
Industrial Social Work

✓ According to Saini (1975), Industrial Social Work has

come to be defined as a systematic way of helping
individuals and groups towards a better adaptation to work
situation

✓ Occupational social work can be broadly defined as

a specialized field of social work practice, which addresses
the human and social needs of the work community through
a variety of interventions, which aim to foster optimal
adaptation between individual and their environments.