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)
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.
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