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Human Resource Management

Notes to law and order situation within an organisation. In each case the respective state governments
may prescribe duties, qualifications and conditions of service of such officers.
The Labour Welfare Officer should possess a university degree, degree or diploma in social
service/social work from a recognised institution and adequate knowledge of local language of
the area where the factory is situated.

Did u know? What are the duties and responsibilities of a labour welfare officer?
The duties and responsibilities of a Labour Welfare Officer may be summarized thus
(Central Welfare Officers Rules, 1951):
 Advisory: He can advise and suggest the formulation of company labour policies;
promote training programmes, promote welfare schemes; secure housing,
recreational and educational facilities for workers, etc.
 Service oriented: He can offer help to workers in solving family and personal
problems, in adjusting to work environment, in understanding their rights and
privileges, in forwarding application for leave, etc. He can offer help to management
by making workers understand various problems.
 Supervisory: He can supervise, inspect and regulate welfare, health and safety
programmes, working of joint committees and paid vacations.
 Functional: He can oversee the implementation of labour laws for the benefit of
workers.
 Policing: He can forward workers' grievances to management, can influence
industrial relations climate when disputes arise, can restrain workers and
management from resorting to illegal strikes and lockouts.
 Mediation: He can mediate and build harmony between labour and management,
secure speedy redressal of workers' grievances, settle disputes through persuasive
efforts, maintain a neutral stance during strikes and lockouts and thereby help in
resolving troubling issues peacefully.

Task Of the different additional benefits companies provide (in addition to those
mandated by law), which would you consider most valuable to you? Why?

Notes Labour Welfare Funds
The Ministry of Labour is administering five welfare funds for beedi, cine and certain
categories of non coal mine workers. The funds have been and set up under the following
Acts of Parliament:
1. The mica mines Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1946.
2. The Limestone and Dolomite Mines Labour Welfare Fund Act.
3. The Iron Ore, Manganese Ore and Chrome Ore Mines Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1976.
4. The Beedi Workers' Welfare fund Act, 1976.

5. The Cine Workers Welfare Fund Act, 1981.
The fund created by these acts, is used by the Central Government for the Welfare of
Workers under these occupations.

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