Labour Inspection System and Welfare

ProvisionsPresented by

Prakash Dhakal MBA in HRM – 2012 – IBMS

Highlights

Labour Inspection System

Employee Welfare Measures

Statutory and Non-Statutory Welfare Measures

Features of Welfare Measures

Industrial Health and Safety

Labour Inspection System

Approach of Labour Inspection – South AfricaA Recorded Video of GIUSUPPE CASELEDirector, Labour Administration Department, International Labour Organization (ILO)

Labour inspection is the fully component of labour ministry (labour department) and Concern about the labour (public employment) safety and health.

Because:Labour are the key for any social and economic development.Labour can create the greater impact on organizational effectiveness

Industrial Safety and Health

Since 1950, the ILO and WHO have shared a common definition of occupational health. (It was adopted by the Joint ILO/WHO Committee on Occupational Health at its first session in 1950)

Occupational safety and health(OSH) is concerned with protecting the safety, health and welfare of people engaged in employment. (To foster a safe and healthy work environment)

Occupational Safety and Health

Employees Welfare

“Employee welfare is a comprehensive term including various services, benefits and facilities offered to employees & by the employers. Through such generous fringe benefits the employer makes life worth living for employees.”

Employees Welfare Measures

- Improved working conditions- Health care facilities- Insurance for self and family

- Recreation facilities- Improved industrial relations and so on.

These measures may not be in the form of monetary benefits.

Organization should keep their employees attached to the organization and towards this keep them happy to the extent possible.

The welfare measures are not rigid. It changes all the time. Welfare measures are over and above the wages paid to employees. It Includes:

Features of Labour Welfare Measures

1. Includes various facilities, services and amenities provided to workers for improving their health, efficiency, economic betterment and social status.

2. Welfare measures are in addition to regular wages and other economic benefits available to workers due to legal provisions and collective bargaining

3. Labor welfare schemes are flexible and ever-changing. New welfare measures are added to the existing ones from time to time.

4. Welfare measures may be introduced by the employers, government, employees or by any social or charitable agency.

5. The logic behind providing welfare schemes is to create efficient, healthy, loyal and satisfied labor force for the organization. Also to raise the employees standard of living and their work life balance.

Features of Labour Welfare Measures

1. Includes various facilities, services and amenities provided to workers for improving their health, efficiency, economic betterment and social status.

2. Welfare measures are in addition to regular wages and other economic benefits available to workers due to legal provisions and collective bargaining 3. Labor welfare schemes are flexible and ever-changing. New welfare measures are added to the existing ones from time to time.

4. Welfare measures may be introduced by the employers, government, employees or by any social or charitable agency.

5. The logic behind providing welfare schemes is to create efficient, healthy, loyal and satisfied labor force for the organization. Also to raise the employees standard of living and their work life balance.

Features of Labour Welfare Measures

1. Includes various facilities, services and amenities provided to workers for improving their health, efficiency, economic betterment and social status.

2. Welfare measures are in addition to regular wages and other economic benefits available to workers due to legal provisions and collective bargaining

3. Labor welfare schemes are flexible and ever-changing. New welfare measures are added to the existing ones from time to time. 4. Welfare measures may be introduced by the employers, government, employees or by any social or charitable agency.

5. The logic behind providing welfare schemes is to create efficient, healthy, loyal and satisfied labor force for the organization. Also to raise the employees standard of living and their work life balance.

Features of Labour Welfare Measures

1. Includes various facilities, services and amenities provided to workers for improving their health, efficiency, economic betterment and social status.

2. Welfare measures are in addition to regular wages and other economic benefits available to workers due to legal provisions and collective bargaining

3. Labor welfare schemes are flexible and ever-changing. New welfare measures are added to the existing ones from time to time.

4. Welfare measures may be introduced by the employers, government, employees or by any social or charitable agency. 5. The logic behind providing welfare schemes is to create efficient, healthy, loyal and satisfied labor force for the organization. Also to raise the employees standard of living and their work life balance.

Features of Labour Welfare Measures

1. Includes various facilities, services and amenities provided to workers for improving their health, efficiency, economic betterment and social status.

2. Welfare measures are in addition to regular wages and other economic benefits available to workers due to legal provisions and collective bargaining

3. Labor welfare schemes are flexible and ever-changing. New welfare measures are added to the existing ones from time to time.

4. Welfare measures may be introduced by the employers, government, employees or by any social or charitable agency.

5. The logic behind providing welfare schemes is to create efficient, healthy, loyal and satisfied labor force for the organization. --- Also to raise the employees standard of living and their work life balance …

Keeping the workers happy and satisfied To provide better employment life and health to workers Reduce stress situations Improve intellectual, Cultural and materials conditions

Welfare Measures are aimed for:

** There are reasonable welfare measures available to employees through statutory provisions. In most cases collective bargaining helps to improve the degree of welfare facilities.

Housing schemes, medical benefits, education and recreation facilities for workers’ families help in raising their standards of living.

(Because the welfare of their families is taken care of workers pay more attention towards work increasing their productivity.)

The Important Welfare Measures

Employees become loyal to the employer. They will stick on.

They start taking active interest in their jobs and work with a feeling of involvement and participation.

Employees Welfare Measures

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Employees Welfare Measures

STATUTORY WELFARE SCHEMES

1. Drinking Water Facilities2. Facilities for sitting3. First aid appliances4. Latrines and Urinals5. Canteen facilities with quality services7. Lighting8. Washing places9. Changing rooms 10. Rest rooms - etc

Employees Welfare Measures

Welfare provision schemes …

Employee 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.

The very logic behind providing welfare schemes is to create efficient, healthy, loyal and satisfied labor force for the organization. And …

The purpose of providing such facilities is to make their work life better and also to raise their standard of living.

At the END …

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