Labour welfare aims to protect workers' rights by providing services and amenities. It is a flexible concept that varies by place, time, and culture. Services are designed according to factors like age, sex, socioeconomic status, and marital status. Labour welfare includes intramural amenities within the workplace like rest areas and canteens, as well as extramural benefits outside of work like maternity leave, insurance, and retirement funds. Key principles are coordination of programs, worker association in planning and execution, responsibility, accountability, and timely assistance. Approaches to labour welfare include policing, religion, philanthropy, paternalism, placation, public relations, functional, and social.

1. Brief Presentation
On the topic :
Discuss the concept, Principles and approaches of labour welfare
Subject: Social Security , Labour Welfare and Related Legislations.
MOHAMMAD INTESAR ALAM
MSW(F)

2. Introduction
 Labour Welfare means providing services or provision to workers which
protect their rights.
 Labour welfare is a flexible concept it differs from place to place, time to
time, culture to culture etc.
 The provision of Labour Welfare designed according to the age group, Sex,
Socio-cultural background, marital status, economic status etc.

3. Concept
 According to Committee constituted on Labour welfare in 1966
Such services, Facilities, Sanitary, and medical facilities,
arrangements for travel to and from work and for the
accommodations of workers employed at a distance from their
homes and such other services, amenities and facilities including
social security measures as contribute to improve the conditions
under which workers are employed.
 Labour welfare services include all extramural and intramural
work , statutory and non statutory, welfare facilities undertaken
by the employers, Governments, Trade unions or voluntary
agencies.

4. Intramural Extramural
 Welfare amenities with in the
premises of the establishment
like washrooms,rest shelters
and canteens, arrangements of
drinking water, health facilities
etc.
 Administartive arrangements to
provide a disciplined
environment to work.
 Including welfare amenities
outside the establishment such
as maternity benefits, social
insurance measures including
gratuity, pension, provident
fund and rehabilitation etc.

5. Principles
 Principle of Integration or Coordination – Welfare programmes
cannot be segregated. They cannot be taken up part-by-part. It is a
whole programme. For example, health and welfare should cover up
all the aspects of health and hygiene, physical, social and moral
hygiene.
 Principle of Association – Any welfare programme meant for the
development of workers’ community should associate workers with
the planning and execution of the programme. Workers should be
associated for conducting activities.
 Principle of Responsibility – Workers should be incorporated and
they should be hold responsible for the activities aiming at workers’
welfare. For example, workers participate in safety committees,
sports committees, canteen committees, etc.

6. Principles.
 Principle of Accountability – Every programme, every person and
every activity should be answerable. Welfare programme are socially
audited and evaluated. Successful programme are retained Weaker
programme are straightened.
 Principle of Timeliness – Timely help is a valuable help. A stick in
time saves nine. When a worker needs economic assistance for
trading a sick child or for building a house, there should be
reasonable lapse of time but beyond a limit he can’t wait.
Appropriate action begins taken for welfare might serve the purpose.
In certain circumstances of emergency, delay in assistance means
denial of human value and justice.

7. Approaches
The policing approach of labour welfare.
The religion approach of labour welfare.
The philanthropic approach of labour welfare.
The paternalistic approach of labour welfare.
The placating approach of labour welfare.
The public relations approach of labour welfare.
The functional approach of labour welfare.
The social approach of labour welfare.

8. Conclusion
 After whole discussion and definition we can say that Labour
Welfare is an umbrella term which covers the over all life
aspect of a worker like Health, Education, Sanitation etc, in
toatlity we can say a subset of social Security that provides an
standard life to the workforce.