Important Short Questions and Answers: Labour Welfare

LABOUR WELFARE

1. Write a short note on Labour Welfare?

The concept of labour welfare is flexible and elastic and differs widely with time, region, industry, social values and customs, degree of industrialization, the general socio – economic development of the people and the political ideologies prevailing at a particular time. It is also molded according to the age – group, sex, socio – cultural background, marital and economic status and educational level of the workers in various industries.

2. Define Labour Welfare?

According to the Committee on Labour Welfare, welfare services should mean: ―Such services, facilities, and amenities as adequate canteens, rest and recreation facilities, sanitary and medical facilities, arrangements for travel to and from place of work, and for the accommodation of workers employed at a distance from their homes; and such other services, amenities and facilities, including social security measures, as contribute to the conditions under which workers are employed.‖

3. What do you mean by Recreation?

Recreation also has an important role in the development of an individual‟s personality and his capacity to contribute to social development. These facilities bring out the hidden talents of employees. These facilities improve the performance and job satisfaction of the employees. Recreation are dance clubs, craft centres, cultural programmes, music clubs, festival celebrations, study circles, reading room and library, swimming pool, athle tics, gymnasium.

4.Write a short note on Employee’s Education .

In the word of William Flayed, ―Worker Education‖ is an attempt on the part of organized labour to educate its own members under an educational system in which the workers prescribe the courses of instructions, select the teachers and in a considerable measure, furnish the finance.‖

5.Write a short note on Employee’s Training Programme?

The Board has developed a need based, three tier training programme for education officers, workers and teachers. In first state education officer are trained. The period or training is four months. Then they give training for different regional centres.

Second stage is to get selected workers trained as worker teachers at the regional and sub -regional centres by the educational officers. The duration of training programme is three months.

6.What is Labour Funds?

Labour welfare funds are created as a measure of social security provided to the working class. Social security is one of the working class. Social security is one of the three categories of labour welfare activities classified by the study group appointed by the Government of India to examine the labour welfare activities.

7.Write about Social Security Measures.

Social security can be said to be measures of protection provided by society against certain contingencies of modern life, namely, sickness unemployment, old age, dependency, industrial accidents and invalidation against which the individual cannot be expected to protect him.

8.Write a short note on Statutory Welfare Measures.

Statutory welfare measures mainly include welfare facilities provided within the precincts of an industrial establishment. They form part of the employers‟ statutory obligations. All welfare states provide welfare to the labour by securing and protecting social order to ensure social, economic and political justice.

9.List out the theories of labour welfare.

^Ø   Policy theory

^Ø   Religious theory

^Ø   Philanthrophic theory

^Ø   Public relations theory

^Ø   Social theory

10.List out the different types of housing scheme.

^Ø   Integrated subsidized housing scheme

^Ø   Subsidized housing scheme for plantation workers

^Ø   Income grouping housing scheme

^Ø   Village housing projects scheme

11.What are the measures involved in non statutory welfare measure?

^Ø   Health

^Ø   Education

^Ø   Recreation

^Ø   Transport