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Labour Legislations

Notes for the workers. Statuary welfare funds are created to provide housing, recreational
facilities and medical facilities to the workers.
2. State Government: Different State Governments' offers different facilities to the workers
in the state. In Gujarat and Punjab, there are Labour Welfare Centres for providing the
welfare functions to the workers. In Assam, a statuary welfare fund is created for offering
the medical, educational and recreational facilities.
3. Employers: Big corporate giant like TATA, TISCO, L&T, Bajaj, etc have undertaken the
welfare activities for their workers. Ratan Tata has created a number of hospitals, and
education institutes for the workers of his factory. In this way a number of corporates help
in extending these basic welfare activities in factories.

4. Trade Unions: In some companies like Ahmedabad Textile Labour Association, Indian
Federation of Labour are the organizations that have provided the welfare activities and
facilities for the workers like running schools, sports centres, recreation facilities, cultural
centres, legal cells, etc. Though poor finances and multiple unionisms create problems for
the trade unions in establishing the welfare amenities for the workers, so much cannot be
expected from them.

1.8 Classification of Labour Legislations

On the basis of specific objectives, the labour legislations can be classified into following
categories:
1. Regulative
2. Protective
3. Wage-related

4. Social security
5. Welfare both inside and outside the workplace
1. Regulative Labour Legislation: The main objective of the regulative legislation is to regulate
the relations between employees and employers and to provide for methods and manners
of settling industrial disputes. They regulate the relationship between the workers and
their trade unions, the rights and obligations of the organizations of employers and
workers as well as their mutual relationships.
(a) The Trade Unions Act, 1926

(b) The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947
(c) Industrial Relations Legislations enacted by States of Maharashtra, MP, Gujarat, etc.
(d) Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946.
2. Protective Labour Legislations: These legislations have a primary purpose to protect
labour standards and to improve the working conditions. Laws laying down the minimum
labour standards in the areas of hours of work, supply, employment of children and
women, etc. in the factories, mines, plantations, transport, shops and other establishments
are included in this category. Some of these are the following:
(a) Factories Act, 1948

(b) The Mines Act, 1952
(c) The Plantations Labour Act, 1951

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