Employee welfare refers to programs and services provided to employees to improve their quality of life and work productivity. It includes both intramural facilities within the workplace like rest areas, medical facilities, and canteens, as well as extramural services outside the workplace like education, housing, and transportation assistance. The goal of employee welfare is to improve employee loyalty, morale, and productivity while reducing absenteeism through programs that benefit both employees and employers. Common employee welfare services are mandated by labor laws and also provided voluntarily by organizations, employers, unions, and other groups.

1. Submitted By:
1. Sandip Mangroliya(11)
2. Gaurang Rathod(05)

2.  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.”

3.  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.

4.  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.

5. Types of Welfare
Activity

6.  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

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

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

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

10.  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.

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

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

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

14.  Extra-mural activities consist of facilities
provided outside the organization.
Education facilities
Medical facilities
Transport facilities
Housing facilities
Interest free loans

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

16.  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.

17.  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.

18.  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.

19.  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

20. Central government
State government
Employers
Trade unions
Other agencies

21.  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.

22.  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.

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

24.  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.

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