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Labour Legislations

Notes Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
Discuss factors influencing labour legislation
Explain establishment of ILO
Describe nature of labour legislations
State the principles of modern legislation
Explain objectives of labour legislations
Discuss agencies for the welfare work

Explain classification of labour legislation
Describe labour welfare officer
Analyse statutory and non-statutory welfare measures

Introduction

As we all know that Welfare includes anything that is done for the comfort and improvement of
employees and is provided over and above the wages. Welfare helps in keeping the morale and
motivation of the employees high so as to retain the employees for longer duration. The welfare
measures need not be in monetary terms only but in any kind/forms.
The need for the labour laws and the labour welfare organizations arouse because of the
industrial revolution. The industrial society brought the excessive exploitation of the working
classes by the employers who took the advantage of the individual dispensability of the workers
and wanted maximum profit on their investments. Hire and fire rule was prevalent and the
general law of concern used to contract the relation between the worker and the employer, its
terms were verbal.

Employee welfare includes monitoring of working conditions, creation of industrial harmony
through infrastructure for health, industrial relations and insurance against disease, accident
and unemployment for the workers and their families. Labor welfare entails all those activities
of employer, which are directed towards providing the employees with certain facilities and
services in addition to wages or salaries.

1.1 Introduction to Labour Welfare

Labour sector addresses multi-dimensional socio-economic aspects affecting labour welfare,
productivity, living standards of labour force and social security. A participatory planning
process is an essential pre-condition for ensuring equity as well as accelerating the rate of
growth of economy. To rise Living standards of the work force and achieve higher productivity;
skill upgradation through suitable training is of utmost importance. Manpower development
to provide adequate labour force of appropriate skills and quality to different sectors is essential
for rapid socioeconomic development. In order to address the concerns of equity in a sustainable
manner it is necessary to ensure significant improvements in the quality of labour, productivity,
skill development and working conditions, and to provide welfare and social security measures
particularly, to those in the unorganized sector. Employment generation in all the productive
sectors is one of the basic objectives. In this context, efforts are being made for providing the
environment for self-employment both in urban and rural areas. During the Ninth Plan period,
elimination of undesirable practices such as child labour, bonded labour, and aspects such as

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