Seminar onEMPLOYEE WELFARE

Submitted By:

1. Sandip Mangroliya(11)2. Gaurang Rathod(05)

Employee welfare means “the efforts to make life worth living for workmen.”

According to Todd “Employee welfare means anything done for the

comfort and improvement, intellectual or social, of the employees over and above the wages paid which is not a necessity of the industry.”

Meaning of Employee Welfare

Employee welfare is a comprehensive term including various services and facilities provided to employees for their betterment.

The basic purpose in to improve the lot of the working class.

Employee welfare is a dynamic concept. Employee welfare measures are also known as

fringe benefits and services. Welfare measures may be both voluntary and

statutory.

Features of employee welfare

Employee welfare is in the interest of the employee, the employer and the society as a whole. The objectives of employee welfare are: -

It improves the loyalty and morale of the employees.

It reduces labour turnover and absenteeism. It helps to improve industrial relations and

industrial peace It helps to improve employee productivity.

Objectives of employee welfare

Types of Welfare Activity

Intra-mural facilities

Extra-mural facilities

Types of Welfare Activity

Intra-mural activities consist of facilities provided within the factories.

Washing and bathing facilities Storing and Drying Cloth Sitting facilities First Aid Facilities Provision of canteens Supply of drinking water Provision of safety measures

Intra-mural Facilities

For that every factory shall provide adequate and suitable washing facilities, separately screened for male and female workers, conveniently accessible and clean

1. Washing Facilities

For that, every factory shall provided a place for keeping the clothes which are not worn during working hours and drying of wet clothes.

2. Storing and Drying Cloth

Every factory shall provide for suitable arrangements for sitting for all workers obliged to work in a standing position.

3. Sitting Facilities

For every 150 workers, there must be readily accessible and well equipped first – aid box.

This box must contain the prescribed contents and it must be in charge of a responsible person who holds a certificate in first – aid.

4. First Aid Facilities

Every factory where 250 workers are employed, the occupier has to maintain a canteen for the use of workers.

5. Canteen

In every factory where in 150 workers are employers are employed, the occupier shall provide shelter, rest rooms and lunch rooms.

6. Shelter, Rest and Lunch Rooms

In every part of a manufacturing process where workers are working or passing, there provided and maintained sufficient and suitable light, natural artificial both.

7. Lighting

Extra-mural activities consist of facilities provided outside the organization.

Education facilitiesMedical facilitiesTransport facilitiesHousing facilitiesInterest free loans

Extra-mural facilities

Educational facilities are important that the children of the workers should be provided with educational facilities.

1.Educational Facilities

Employers, whether in private or in public sectors have been providing medical facilities for their workers and their families. Besides general medical treatment and health-care, separate arrangements for specialist treatment for diseases like T.B. cancer, leprosy, and mental disease.

2. Medical Facilities

Transport facilities to workers residing at a long distance are essential to relieve them from strain and anxiety. Such facilities also provide greater opportunity for relaxation and recreation and help in reducing the rater of absenteeism.

3. Transport Facilities

Some of the industrial employers both in public and private sector have provided housing facilities to their employees. The company also renders assistance to the co-operative housing societies formed by its employees.

4.Housing Facilities

Every organization hears what employees says

Good organization listens to what employees have to say

The best organizations with employee welfare schemes listens what employees don’t say

How should be an Organization for E.W ?

Central governmentState governmentEmployersTrade unionsOther agencies

List of the agencies of employee welfare

The central government has made elaborate provisions for the health, safety and welfare under Factories Act 1948, and Mines Act 1952. These acts provide for canteens, crèches, rest rooms, shelters etc.

1. Central government

Government in different states and Union Territories provide welfare facilities to workers. State government prescribes rules for the welfare of the workers and ensures compliance with the provisions under various labour laws.

2. State government

Employers in India in general looked upon welfare work as fruitless and barren though some of them indeed had done pioneering work.

3. Employers

In India, trade unions have done little for the welfare of workers. But few sound and strong unions have been the pioneering in this respect. E.g. the Ahmedabad textiles labour association and the Mazdoor sabha, Kanpur.

4. Trade unions

Some philanthropic, charitable d social service organizations like: - Seva Sadan society, Y.M.C.A., etc.

5. Other agencies