19-07-2012, 08:47 PM
A Project on Employee Welfare
DEFINITION OF EMPLOYEE WELFARE
The ILO (International Labour Organization) defined, “welfare as a term which is understood to include such services and amenities as may be established in or the vicinity of undertaking to perform their work in healthy, congenial surrounding and to provide them with amenities conductive to good health and high morale.”
According to Arthur james Todd, “welfare as anything done for the comfort or improvement and social of the employees over and above the wages paid, which is not a necessity of the industry”.
MEANING OF EMPLOYEE WELFARE
Employee welfare means, such services, facilities and amenities such as canteens, rest and recreation facilities, arrangement for travel to and for the accommodation of workers employed at a distance from their home, and such other services, amenities and facilities including social security measures as contribute to improve the condition under which workers are employed.
CONCEPT OF EMPLOYEE WELFARE
Employee welfare may be viewed as a total concept, as a social concept and a relative concept. The total concept is a desirable state of existence involving the physical, mental, moral and emotional well-being. The social concept of welfare implies, of man, his family and his community.
The relative concept of welfare implies that welfare is relative in time and place. Employee welfare implies the setting up of minimum desirable standards and the provision of facilities like health, food, clothing housing, medical allowance, education, insurance, job security, such as to safeguard his health and protect him against occupational hazards. The worker should also be equipped with necessary training and a certain level of general education.
WORKER’S EDUCATION
Reading room, circulating library, visual education; literary classes, adult education, social education; daily news review; factory news bulletin; cooperation with workers in education services.
Welfare facilities may also be categorized as (a) intra-mural and (b) extra-mural.
INTRA-MURAL FACILITIES
Intra-mural activities consist of facilities provided within the factories and include medical facilities, compensation for accidents, provision of safety measures, activities relating to improving of employment, and the like.
EXTRA-MURAL FACILITIES
Extra-mural activities cover the services and facilities provided outside the factory such as housing accommodation, indoor and outdoor recreational facilities, amusement and sports, educational facilities for adults and children and the like.
It may be stated that the welfare activities may be provided by the employer, the government, non-government organizations and the trade unions. What employers provided will be stated later, the activities undertaken by other agencies are mentioned here.
WELFARE FACILITIES BY THE GOVERNMENT
With a view to making it mandatory for employers, to provide certain welfare for their employees, the government of India has enacted several laws from time. These laws are the factories act, 1948; the mines act, 1952; the plantation labour act 1951; the bid and cigar workers (conditions of employment) act 1966; and the contract labour (regulation and abolition) act, 1970. another significant step taken by the central government has been established in coal ,mica, iron-ore, limestone and dolomite mines. The welfare activities covered by these funds include housing, medical, educational and recreational facilities for employees and their dependents.
WELFARE ACTIVITIES BY THE TRADE UNION
Labour union have contributed their share for the betterment of the employees. Mention may be made here of the textile labour association of headband and the railway men’s union and the mazdoor sabha of kanpur, which have rendered invaluable services in the field of labour welfare. The welfare activities of the textile labour association. Ahmedabad,are worth nothing.
WELFARE WORK BY VOLUNTARY AGENCIES
Many voluntary social-service agencies have been doing useful labour-welfare work. Mention may be made of the Bombay social service league, the seva sadan society, the maternity and infant welfare association, the YMCA, the depressed classes mission society and the women’s institute of Bengal. The welfare activities of these organization of recreation and sports for the working class.
DEFINITION OF EMPLOYEE WELFARE
The ILO (International Labour Organization) defined, “welfare as a term which is understood to include such services and amenities as may be established in or the vicinity of undertaking to perform their work in healthy, congenial surrounding and to provide them with amenities conductive to good health and high morale.”
According to Arthur james Todd, “welfare as anything done for the comfort or improvement and social of the employees over and above the wages paid, which is not a necessity of the industry”.
MEANING OF EMPLOYEE WELFARE
Employee welfare means, such services, facilities and amenities such as canteens, rest and recreation facilities, arrangement for travel to and for the accommodation of workers employed at a distance from their home, and such other services, amenities and facilities including social security measures as contribute to improve the condition under which workers are employed.
CONCEPT OF EMPLOYEE WELFARE
Employee welfare may be viewed as a total concept, as a social concept and a relative concept. The total concept is a desirable state of existence involving the physical, mental, moral and emotional well-being. The social concept of welfare implies, of man, his family and his community.
The relative concept of welfare implies that welfare is relative in time and place. Employee welfare implies the setting up of minimum desirable standards and the provision of facilities like health, food, clothing housing, medical allowance, education, insurance, job security, such as to safeguard his health and protect him against occupational hazards. The worker should also be equipped with necessary training and a certain level of general education.
WORKER’S EDUCATION
Reading room, circulating library, visual education; literary classes, adult education, social education; daily news review; factory news bulletin; cooperation with workers in education services.
Welfare facilities may also be categorized as (a) intra-mural and (b) extra-mural.
INTRA-MURAL FACILITIES
Intra-mural activities consist of facilities provided within the factories and include medical facilities, compensation for accidents, provision of safety measures, activities relating to improving of employment, and the like.
EXTRA-MURAL FACILITIES
Extra-mural activities cover the services and facilities provided outside the factory such as housing accommodation, indoor and outdoor recreational facilities, amusement and sports, educational facilities for adults and children and the like.
It may be stated that the welfare activities may be provided by the employer, the government, non-government organizations and the trade unions. What employers provided will be stated later, the activities undertaken by other agencies are mentioned here.
WELFARE FACILITIES BY THE GOVERNMENT
With a view to making it mandatory for employers, to provide certain welfare for their employees, the government of India has enacted several laws from time. These laws are the factories act, 1948; the mines act, 1952; the plantation labour act 1951; the bid and cigar workers (conditions of employment) act 1966; and the contract labour (regulation and abolition) act, 1970. another significant step taken by the central government has been established in coal ,mica, iron-ore, limestone and dolomite mines. The welfare activities covered by these funds include housing, medical, educational and recreational facilities for employees and their dependents.
WELFARE ACTIVITIES BY THE TRADE UNION
Labour union have contributed their share for the betterment of the employees. Mention may be made here of the textile labour association of headband and the railway men’s union and the mazdoor sabha of kanpur, which have rendered invaluable services in the field of labour welfare. The welfare activities of the textile labour association. Ahmedabad,are worth nothing.
WELFARE WORK BY VOLUNTARY AGENCIES
Many voluntary social-service agencies have been doing useful labour-welfare work. Mention may be made of the Bombay social service league, the seva sadan society, the maternity and infant welfare association, the YMCA, the depressed classes mission society and the women’s institute of Bengal. The welfare activities of these organization of recreation and sports for the working class.
