It is a labor affairs & administration of social policy.

1. Labor administration
Presented by-
Ayisha Kowsar A
MBA
http://www.ilo.org/labadmin

2. • Labour administration is a wide term.
• It is primarily concerned with labour affairs
and administration of social policy.
• The meeting of experts on labour
administration held in Geneva in October
1973.
• To deal with the major substantive
programmes of labour administration.
BACKGROUND

3. ILO concept of labour administration
• LA: all public bodies involved in labour
policy.
• ILO and Labour Administration.
• ILO and Labour Inspection.
• Social Partners and Labour Administration.

4. International Labour Standards
• Historically, labour inspectorates among the first labour
institutions
• Founding of the ILO (1919), creation of Ministries of Labour
• Labour Inspection Recommendation, 1923 (No. 20)
• Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81)
• Labour Inspection (Agriculture) Convention, 1969 (No. 129)
• Labour Administration Convention, 1978 (No. 150)
• Protocol of 1995 to the Labour Inspection Convention, 1947
• Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155)
• Promotional Framework for OSH Convention, 2006 (No. 187)

5. ADMINISTRATION LISTS
UNION
LIST
CONCUR
RENT
LIST
STATE
LIST

6. UNION LIST
 Participation in international conferences ,
associations & other bodies & implementing
decisions made threat.
 Port quarantine , including hospitals connected
therewith , seamen’s & marine hospitals.
 Regulation of labour & safety in mines and oilfields;
 Industrial disputes concerning union employees.
 The promotion of special studies & research.
 Enquiries surveys and statistics for the purpose of
any of the matters in this list.

7. CONCURRENT LIST
 Economic & social planning.
 Trade unions , industrial and labour disputes.
 Social security and social insurance employment
and unemployment.
 Welfare of labour, including conditions of work,
provident fund, employers liability, workmen’s
compensation, invalidity and old age pensions, and
maternity benefits.
 Vocational and technical training of labour.

8. STATE LIST
Public order.
Public health & sanitation.
Hospitals & dispensaries.
Relief of the disabled & un
employable.

9. POLICY INTRODUCED
JAGJIVAN
RAM1946
LABOUR
POLICY

10. LABOUR POLICY
 A five year programme for labour.
 Was drawn up in 1946 when the interim national
government came to power at the centre.
 In the course of a debate in the Central Legislative
Assembly in 1946 by Shri Jagjivan Ram the
member in charge of labour.
 Govt. had formulated a plan for bringing about
essential reforms in the interest of the working
classes of India.

11. MAIN FEATURES OF LABOUR POLICY
 Statutory prescription of minimum wages in
sweated industries and occupations and in
agriculture.
 Promotion of fair wage agreements.
 Steps to secure for workers in plantations a living
wage.
 Reduction in working hours.
 Recently 54 to 48 per week.
 Weekly rest periods, holidays with pay.
 Enforcement of right standards regarding to
lighting, ventilation, safety, health,& welfare of
workers.

12. CONT…..
 Conditions of work are to be improved particularly
in unorganised industries and work places to which
the present factories act does not apply.
 Provision of creches and canteens.
 Welfare of the coal mining labour and welfare of the
mica mining labour.
 Strengthening of the inspection staff and the
inspectorate of mines.

13. Labour Inspection: Trends and Challenges
(contd.)
• Traditional and new challenges.
• Poor conditions in most developing countries
threatening integrity and independence of the staff.
• Informal economy, domestic work, undeclared work
(e.g. construction, agriculture).
• Regulation and prevention of child labour.
• Discrimination issues: gender, HIV/AIDS, race, national
extraction, etc.

14. THE PROJECT AND LABOUR
ADMINISTRATION
Importance of Labour Administration:
 Labour administration is a fundamental issue in
regional integration processes.
 Leading role:
 Ensuring enforcement of and respect for fundamental
principles and rights at work, fostering integral
development of individuals and their productive
potential;
 Improving labour institutions to increase economic
security for workers and their families;
 Improving the functioning of the labour market and
understanding of the impact of integration on labour.

15. THE PROJECT AND LABOUR
ADMINISTRATION
Labour administration functions analysed:
1. Workplace and Labour Relations
 Labour inspection; safety and health at work; dissemination of
information about labour norms; conciliation, mediation and
arbitration
2. Employment
 Employment and professional training; operational bodies and
programmes; job-creation policies and programmes;
placement or employment offices
3. Relations with representatives of the community
4. Generation of information and analytical capacity
5. Human and material resources
6. Organisation and functioning

16. LEGISLATIVE ACTS
o Workers regulation of employment act 1948
o Employment exchange act 1959
o Apprentices act 1961
o District emigrant labour act 1932
o Mines act 1952
o Motor transport workers act 1961
o Trade unions act 1926
o Industrial employment act 1946
o Industrial disputes act 1947
o Payment & wages act 1935