LABOUR WELFARE

UNIT III
Dr.R.JAYAM
• 1. Introduction to Labour Welfare
• 2. Meaning of Labour Welfare
• 3. Definitions
• 4. Evolution
• 5. Scope
• 6. Concept
• 7. Objectives
• 8. Features
• 9. Principles
• 10. Importance
• 11. Qualifications and Functions of Labour Welfare Officer
• 12. Services
• 13. Theories
• 14. Funds
• 15. Position in India.
• Labour welfare relates to taking care of the well-being of workers
by employers, trade unions, governmental and non-governmental
institutions and agencies.
• Welfare includes anything that is done for the comfort and
improvement of employees and is provided over and above the
wages.
• Welfare helps in keeping the morale and motivation of the
employees high so as to retain the employees for longer duration.
• Industrial Labour Organisation (ILO) – “Labour welfare may be understood
and including such services facilities and amenities which may be
established in vicinity of undertaking to perform their work in healthy and
congenial environment and to avail of facilities which improve their health
and bring high morale.”
 LABOUR WELFARE – INTRODUCTION

• The term “Welfare” refers to a staff of living of an individual or a group in

the context of his physical, social and psychic environment.
• The concept of labour welfare has undergone considerable change.
• Social and economic development of the country has to be towards the
enactment of labour welfare and labour protective legislations.
• An individual’s adjustment to his environment is required for his existence
in the industrial world.
• A workers is paid for the types of his services but payment depends on
nature of work, his efficiency, capacity of the industry to pay and
significance of his work in that particular industry.
• A worker has to maintain balance at workplace. He has to adjust with
the physical working conditions as well as with type of supervision, co-
workers, etc.

• The acceptance, respect, goodwill, attention and recognition, which a

worker gets from his work group, community, family and neighbourhood
forms an integral part of the modern concept of labour welfare.
• Capacity of the worker to satisfy his physiological needs like food,
clothing and shelter from his pay packet refers to physical concept of
labour welfare.