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Labour welfare

1. Labour Welfare

2. What is labour welfare??? Why is labour Welfare important in a company ??? Labour Welfare refers to 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.

3. Definitions… “A state of faring or doing well. Freedom from calamity, enjoyment of health and prosperity”. By Chambers dictionary ‘Efforts to make life worth living for the workers.’ By Oxford Dictionary ‘Anything done for the intellectual, physical, moral and economic betterment of the workers, whether by employers, by Govt. or by other agencies, over and above what is laid down by law’ By Labour Investigation Committee “Such services, facilities and amenities as adequate canteens, rest and recreation facilities, arrangements for travel to and from work, and for the accommodation of workers employed at a distance from their houses, and such other services, amenities and facilities as contribute to improve the conditions under which workers are employed.” By ILO 1947

4. Why to Spend extra for Labour welfare???

5. About Labour welfare need   not be in monetary terms only. It may be in any kind/forms also. Employee welfare includes: monitoring of working conditions. creation of industrial harmony through infrastructure for health. insurance against disease, accident and unemployment for the workers and their families.

6. OBJECTIVES of Labour Welfare better life and health to the workers make the workers happy and satisfied relieve workers from industrial fatigue. improve intellectual, cultural and material conditions of living of the workers.

7. Features…. 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.

8. Cont … 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

9.   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.

10. Employer Stable   labor force by providing welfare facilities. Workers take active interest in their jobs and work with a feeling of involvement and participation. Eg : Saurashtra Cement Ltd.

11. 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. Eg. CUMI – Murguppa group

12. PRINCIPLES / APPROACHES TO LABOUR WELFARE Adequacy of wages Social responsibility of Industry Efficiency Totality of welfare Co-ordination of Integration Responsibility Accountability/Evaluation Timeliness

13. 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.