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Unit 12: Welfare

12.4.3 The Mines Act, 1951 Notes

The Act provides for the following:
 Shelters for taking food and rest if 50 or more workers are employed
 First aid boxes and first-aid rooms if 150 or more workers are employed

 A canteen if employing 250 or more workers
 A creche if employing 50 or more females
 Pit-head baths equipped with showers, sanitary latrines
 Welfare officer if 500 or more workers are employed.

12.4.4 The Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961

The Act contains the following provisions:
 First aid equipment in each transport vehicle etc.

 Medical facilities at the operating and halting centres
 Canteen if employing 100 or more workers
 Comfortable, clean, ventilated and well-lighted rest rooms at every place where motor
transport workers are required to halt at night

 Uniforms, rain coats to conductors, drivers, and line checking staff for protection against
cold and rain
 Prescribed amount of washing allowance to the above staff members.

12.4.5 The Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970

The Act requires the contractor to extend the following benefits to workers:

 Canteen, if employing 100 or more workers
 Rest rooms or other suitable alternative accommodation where contract labour is required
to halt at night in connection with the work of an establishment
 Washing facilities

 First aid boxes equipped with prescribed contents.

Task Your company has just developed a new, company-sponsored savings scheme for
employees. Develop a strategy to publicise the scheme and to encourage employees to
participate in it.

12.5 Labour Welfare Officer

The Factories Act, 1948, the Plantation Labour Act, 1951 and the Mines Act, 1951 provide for the
appointment of a Labour Welfare Officer if the number of workers employed within a unit
exceeds 500 (300 as per the Plantation Act). The post has been created specifically to (i) eliminate
the malpractices of the jobber system in the recruitment of labour, (ii) improve labour
administration in factories, (iii) serve as liaison with the State Labour Commissioner. The
Labour Welfare Officer was also expected to discharge the functions of a policeman, with respect

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