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 Labour Welfare

• What is Labour welfare?

• Importance of Labour Welfare
• Classification of Labour Welfare
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 What is Labour welfare ???

Labour Welfare refers to anything that is done for the comfort and
improvement of employees and is provided over and above the wages.
Why is labour Welfare important in a company ???

Welfare helps in keeping the morale and motivation of the employees

high so as to retain the employees for longer duration.
 Facilitate
Employee

wellbeing
Shows employer
Employee cares for
employees
Retention

Labour Welfare

Good Employee Sense of

Relation belonging

Employee
Motivation
• need not be in monetary terms only
• It may be in any kind/forms also.
Labour Welfare…

Employee welfare includes:

1. monitoring of working conditions.

2. creation of industrial harmony through infrastructure

for health.

3. insurance against disease, accident and unemployment for the workers

and their families.
 What are the OBJECTIVES of Labour Welfare ???

1. 1. better life and health to the workers

2. 2. make the workers happy and satisfied
3. 3. relieve workers from industrial fatigue.
4. 4. improve intellectual, cultural and material conditions of living the workers.
 Features of labor welfare measures :

• includes various facilities, services and amenities provided to workers for improving

their health, efficiency, economic betterment and social status.

• Welfare measures are in addition to regular wages and other economic benefits available

to workers due to legal provisions and collective bargaining.

• Labor welfare schemes are flexible and ever-changing. New welfare measures are

added to the existing ones from time to time.

4. Welfare measures may be introduced by the
 Employers (Voluntary)
 Government (Statutory)
 Employees
 Social or charitable agency.

The purpose of providing such facilities is to make their work life better and also to
raise their standard of living.
 Important Benefits of welfare measures:

To Employees:

• Facilities like housing schemes, medical benefits, education and recreation facilities for
workers’ families help in raising their standards of living.

• Provides better physical and mental health to workers and thus promote a healthy
work environment·

• This makes workers to pay more attention towards work and thus increases their
productivity.
 To Employer:

• Stable labor force by providing welfare facilities.

• Workers take active interest in their jobs and work with a feeling of
involvement and participation.

To Organization:
• Employee welfare measures increase the productivity of organization
• promote healthy industrial relations
• Helps to maintain maintaining industrial peace. The social evils prevalent among the
labors such as substance abuse, etc. are reduced to a greater extent by the welfare
policies.
 Classification of Labour Welfare Activities

Labour Welfare
Activities

Statutory Non - Statutory

Voluntary Mutual
 Classification of Labour Welfare Activities

Labour Welfare
Activites

INTRA-MURAL: EXTRA-MURAL:
Within factory Outside factory
premises premises
 Statutory Schemes

• The statutory schemes are those schemes that are compulsory to be provided by
an organization as compliance to the laws governing from time to time.

• It is the product of coercive power of government.

 STATUTORY WELFARE SCHEMES

• The statutory welfare schemes include the following provisions:

1. Drinking Water: At all the working places safe hygienic drinking water should be
provided.

2. Facilities for sitting: In every organization, especially factories, suitable seating

arrangements are to be provided.

3. First aid appliance: First aid appliances are to be provided and should be readily assessable
so that in case of any minor accident initial medication can be provided to the needed
employee.
4. Latrines and Urinals: A sufficient number of latrines and urinals are to be
provided in the office and factory premises and are also to be maintained in a
neat and clean condition.

5. Canteen facilities: Cafeteria or canteens are to be provided by the employer so as to

provide hygienic and nutritious food to the employees.

6. Spittoons: In every work place, such as ware houses, store places, in the dock area and
office premises spittoons are to be provided in convenient places and same are to be
maintained in a hygienic condition.
7. Lighting: Proper and sufficient lights are to be provided for employees so that they
can work safely during the night shifts.(eg TCS)

8. Washing places: Adequate washing places such as bathrooms, wash basins with tap
and tap on the stand pipe are provided in the port area in the vicinity of the work places.

9. Changing rooms: Adequate changing rooms are to be provided for workers to

change their cloth in the factory area and office premises. Adequate lockers are also
provided to the workers to keep their clothes and belongings.

10. Rest rooms: Adequate numbers of restrooms are provided to the workers with
provisions of water supply, wash basins, toilets, bathrooms, etc.
 NON STATUTORY WELFARE SCHEMES

These are provided ‘Voluntarily’ or by ‘Agreeing Mutually’ with the workers. The non
statutory schemes differ from organization to organization and from industry to industry.
Non statutory welfare schemes include the following schemes:

1. Personal Health Care (Regular medical check-ups): Some of the

companies provide the facility for extensive health check-up.

2. Flexi-time: The main objective of the flextime policy is to provide opportunity to

employees to work with flexible working schedules. Flexible work schedules are
initiated by employees and approved by management to meet business commitments
while supporting employee personal life needs.

3. Maternity & Adoption Leave – Employees can avail maternity or adoption leaves.
Paternity leave policies have also been introduced by various companies.
4. Employee Assistance Programs: Various assistant programs are arranged like
external counseling service so that employees or members of their immediate family
can get counseling on various matters. (Eg. SCL-Talk to ME)

5. Harassment Policy: To protect an employee from harassments of any kind, guidelines

are provided for proper action and also for protecting the aggrieved employee. (E.g.: SCL-
awareness posters)

6. Medi-claim Insurance Scheme: This insurance scheme provides adequate

insurance coverage of employees for expenses related to hospitalization due to illness,
disease or injury or pregnancy.

7. Employee Referral Scheme: In several companies employee referral scheme is

implemented to encourage employees to refer friends and relatives for employment in
the organization.
 WELFARE PROGRAMMES FOR ORGANIZED SECTORS

Sanitary and Hygiene:

• Includes toilets and water for drinking and washing.
• The factories Act requires that every factory must be kept clean and free from dirt.
• Separate latrine and urinals for male and female workers must be provided
• Spittoons must be kept in convenient places in clean and hygienic conditions

Rest Facilities:
• The factories Act provides that, for the purpose of rest, suitable sitting arrangements have to be
made and maintained for all workers who are obliged to work standing and rest rooms and lunch
rooms in a factory with more than 150 workers.
Canteen:
• The construction of canteens is compulsory as per the Factories Act (1948), the Mines Act
(1952), Motor Transport Workers Act (1961) and the Plantation Labour Act (1951).
• Mess rooms are an elementary feeding facility with a sufficient chairs tables where
workers can sit and eat in comfort.
Health Care:
• This includes health and medical facilities inside and outside the workers place of work, intra-
mural health and medical amenities cover first aid, ambulance rooms, industrial hygiene,
occupational health, and emergency medical care in case of accidents or sudden illness inside
factory premises.
Occupation and Health Services:
• These services include carrying out of periodical medical checks of certain categories of
workers to detect early signs of ill-health and prevent the outbreak of serious health
complaints.
• The Factories Act lays down that in any factory with more than 30 women workers, a crèche
should be provided.
Housing:
• Housing is an integral part of worker’s welfare.
• Recommendation of the ILO states that housing should be a national policy. Both the Industrial
Commission (1918) and the Royal Commission (1i913) realized the importance and necessity of
improving housing conditions of industrial workers and made recommendations for the purpose.
(Eg- Reliance , Bharuch; SCL – Porbandar)

Transport:
• Transport facilities to and from the place of work are given to workers as one of
the desirable welfare amenities. (Eg – SCL :Bus service is provided)
• This facility is gaining in popularity because of growing urbanization, location of industries,
transport loads and traffic congestion.
• The main purpose of this amenity is to enable workers reach their place of work without undue
delay or fatigue, reduces absenteeism.

Recreation:
• Recreation is a leisure time activity which is a healthy diversion and a spare-time occupation.
• It refreshes an individual mentally. (eg – TCS: den rooms with coffee machine,
newspapers, computer)
Education:

• Education improves the quality of the labour force, provides opportunities for a proper training for the
acquisition of skills and techniques which are essential for workers in an industry and enable them to
adjust themselves to their particular way of life,
• Yet, there is no statutory obligation with regard to education for worker’s children in any industry except in
plantations. (Eg – SCL – school for girls in Porbandar)

Co-operative and Saving:

• The co-operative credit societies help the worker to save for unforeseen domestic crises. By means
of this service, workers are able to receive advice and counsel on some of the personnel and sometimes
also on the personal problems inside and outside their place of work. A trained social worker is usually
appointed for this purpose.
• There are many non statutory welfare amenities available to industrial workers. For eg. Ex-gratia
payment, cash benefits paid in case of death, injury, sickness, marriage or as a felicitation grant.
 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.
 CONCLUSION

• Labour welfare services is an important personnel function in a business.

• Effective utilization of other factors of production depends on the efficiency of
human factor.
• The worker spends more than a quarter of his life in his working place. Therefore, the
worker has every right to demand that the condition under which he works should be
reasonable and provides proper safeguards for life and health.
• The amount of dedication, quality of work, commitment to the organization, morale etc.
are all determined by the type and amount of welfare a worker receives.