The document discusses employee welfare in India. It defines employee welfare as efforts to improve the lives of workers beyond just wages. It outlines the objectives of welfare, which include improving loyalty, morale, and productivity. It also discusses the agencies that provide welfare, including central/state governments, employers, unions, and other organizations. Common types of statutory and voluntary welfare schemes in India are described.

1. CoerCollegeof Engineering,Roorkee
EMPLOYEEWELFARE
PRESENTED BY: PRESENTED
TO:
RUCHI CHAUHAN Dr Sudhir
Kumar Gaur
201490500051
MBA Fourth Semester

2. CONTENT
 Meaning & Definition
 Features
 Objectives
 Agencies
 Types
 Social Security Provision in India
 Role of Management
 Employee Welfare Schemes
 Impact of Welfare on Productivity
 ILO's Employee Welfare
 SUMMARY

3. Meaning&
Definition
 Employee welfare means "the efforts to make life worth
living for workmen.
 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.

4. Features
 Employee welfare is a comprehensive term including
various services, facilities and amenities 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.

5. Objectives
Employee welfare is in the interest of the employee, the
employer and the society as a whole.
The objectives of employee welfare are: -
It helps to improve:
 It improves the loyalty and morale of the employees.
 It reduces labor turnover and absenteeism.
 Welfare measures help to improve the goodwill and
public image of the enterprise.
 It helps to improve industrial relations and industrial
peace.
 It helps to improve employee productivity

6. Agencies
1. Central government: 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.
2. State 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 labor laws.
3. Employers: Employers in India in general looked upon welfare
work as fruitless and barren though some of them indeed had
done pioneering work.
4. Trade unions: 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 labor
association and the Mazdoor Sabha, Kanpur.
5. Other agencies: Some philanthropic, charitable d social service.
organizations like: - Seva Sadan society, Y.M.C.A., etc.

7. Types
 Intramural: These are provided within the organization
like: -
1. Canteen,
2. Rest rooms,
3. Crèches,
4. Uniform etc.
 Extramural: -
 These are provided outside the organization, like: -
1. Housing,
2. Education,
3. Child welfare,
4. Leave travel facilities,
5. Interest free loans,
6. Workers cooperative stores,
7. Vocational guidance etc.

8. Types
 Statutory welfare work:- comprising the legal
provisions in various pieces of labor legislation.
 Voluntary welfare work:- includes those activities
which are undertaken by employers for their voluntary
work.

9. SocialSecurity
ProvisioninIndia
Different ways of Social Security Provision in India:
 Social Insurance:- common fund is established with periodical
contribution from workers out of which all benefits in terms of
cash or kind are paid. The employers & state prove major
portion of finances. Benifits such as PF, Group Insurance etc.
are offered.
 Social Assistance:- Benefits are offered to persons of small
means by govt out of its general revenues. Eg- Old age
pension.
 Medical care:-
1. Sickness benefit in cash
2. Old age pension or retirement benefit
3. Invalidity pension
4. Maternity benefit
5. Accident benefit
6. Survivor's benefit
Article 41 Of Indian constitution says that " the state shall with
in the limits of its economic capacity & develepment, make
effective provision for security, the right to work, to education &
to public assistance in cases of unemployment, oldage, sickness
& disablement & in other cases of undeserved want"

10. Roleof
Management
 Organizations provide welfare facilities to their
employees to keep their motivation levels high. The
employee welfare schemes can be classified into two
categories viz. statutory and non-statutory welfare
schemes.
 The statutory schemes are those schemes that are
compulsory to provide by an organization as
compliance to the laws governing employee health and
safety. These include provisions provided in industrial
acts like Factories Act 1948, Dock Workers Act (safety,
health and welfare) 1986, Mines Act 1962.
 The non statutory schemes differ from organization to
organization and from industry to industry

11. Employee
Welfare
Schemes
Statutory Welfare Schemes:- include the following
provisions:
 Drinking Water
 Facilities for sitting
 First aid appliances
 Canteen facilities
 Spittoons
 Lighting
Non-Statutory Welfare Schemes:-
 Personal Health Care (Regular medical check-ups): Some
of the companies provide the facility for extensive health
check-up.
 Flexi-time: The main objective of the flextime policy is to
provide opportunity to employees to work with flexible
working schedules
 Employee Assistance Programs: Various assistant
programs are arranged like external counseling service so
that employees or members of their immediate family can
get counseling on various matters.

12. Impactof
Welfareon
Productivity
 The Welfare measures aim at integrating the socio-
psychological needs of employees, the unique
requirements of a particular technology, the structure
and processes of the organization and the existing socio
cultural environment.
 It creates a culture of work commitment in
organizations and society which ensure higher
productivity and greater job satisfaction to the
employees.
 Due to the welfare measures, the employees feel that
the management is interested in taking care of the
employees that result in the sincerity, commitment and
loyalty of the employees towards the organization.
 The employees work with full enthusiasm and
energetic behavior which results in the increase in
production and ultimately the increased profit.

13. ILO'sEmployee
Welfare
 ILO has suggested welfare funds on a collective basis
to finance activities in small undertakings.
 It has adopted a number of convections &
recommendations regarding industrial accidents &
occupational health.
 New dimension to welfare activities has been provided
by ILO's contribution to family welfare & population
education prog among industrial workers in organized
sector in India.
 It has rendered exemplary service to all 3 elements
composing it - govt, employees & workers.
 It has greatly influenced labour legislation, labour
welfare, trade unionism & Industrial Relations in
India.

14. SUMMARY
 TODAY,WELFARE HAS BEEN GENERALLY
ACCEPTED BY THE EMPLOYERS.EACH
EMPLOYER DEPENDING ON ITS PRIORITIES
GIVES VARIES DEGREES OF IMPORTANCE TO
LABOUR WELFARE.

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