Labour Welfare

Unit 1
 Contents
• Concept
• Significance
• Objective
• Scope
• Classification
• Approaches, and Principles

• Labour Welfare Officer: Qualifications, Roles and Functions,

Status, Terms and Conditions of Services
• Challenges
 What went wrong?
• Story of Mr. Rajat
– Gets a competent job in

– A villager; Works in a mine Noida

– Married; has two kids – Shifts to Noida with his

family
– Struggling financially
– Gets a very good pay

– Resigns after three months

 Concept and Significance

• Labour Welfare = Labour + Welfare

• Taking care of well-being of workers by

employers, trade unions, Government and
Non-Government agencies
 Concept and Significance

– Physiological + Social + Moral needs

– Anything over and above wages

– Helps increase morale and motivation
– Helps retain employees
– Makes their life worth living

Definitions: Industrial Labour Organization; S. T. Edwards, etc

 Objectives of Labour Welfare

• To improve the standard of living of workers

• To address and minimize employee’s problems and discomfort
• To recognize and respect human values
• To foster better industrial relations and to minimize industrial
disputes
• A parameter to judge the satisfaction levels of employees
• To retain the employees for longer time
• To make employees perform their best
• To increase the bargaining power of employees
 Scope of Social Welfare
• (a) Welfare services within the premises of the
factory such as – drinking and washing facilities,
bathing, creche, canteen, rest room, shelter,
prevention of fatigue and safety devices

• (b) Welfare amenities outside the establishment

include social security measures like social
insurance, social assistance, recreation, sports,
workers’ education, etc.
 Scope of Social Welfare

• Working Environment

• Health Facilities
• General Welfare Facilities
• Economic Welfare Facilities
 Approaches to Social Welfare

• Paternalistic approach

• Efficiency approach
• Social approach
Principles of Labour Welfare

• Principle of Social Responsibility

• Principle of Democratic values
• Principle of Adequacy of wages
• Principle of Efficiency
• Principle of Co-responsibility
• Principle of Timeliness
• Principle of Co-ordination and Integration
• Principle of Totality of Welfare