WELFARE OF SPECIAL CATEGORIES OF LABOUR
1. Difference
between Organized Labour and Unorganized Labour?
2. What do you mean by Contract Labour?
Ø The
contract labour is labour which is not carried on the payroll and is not
directly paid. It is usually divided into two categories.
Ø Those
employed on job contracts; and Those employed on labour contracts
Ø The large establishments offer job contracts for
such operations as the loading and unloading of the metals by the mining
industry or the construction of roads or buildings by Public Works Department.
3.What is Child Labour?
Children
have to be taken care and must be protected from being exploited by the
society. Children of any age, whether, male or female should be not only
protected but also safeguarded and developed to grow in a healthy atmosphere.
4.Describe some of the Statutory Provisions on Child
Labour?
The child
shall enjoy special protection and shall be given opportunities and facilities,
by law and other means, to enable him to develop, physically, mentally,
spiritually and socially in a healthy and normal manner and in conditions of
freedom and dignity. In the enactment of laws for this purpose, the best
interest of the child shall be the Paramount Consideration.
5. What is Female Labour?
Participation
of women in economic activity is common in all countries. But in developing
countries, the incomes of women labour by and large are low. Moreover, if women
have to work, she needs more protection than man in her working environment in
developing countries and in traditional occupations.
6.
List out
the statutory provisions for women welfare
*
Maternity Provision 1919
*
Night Work 1919
*
Underground work 1935
*
Equal Remuneration 1951 and
*
Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) 1958.
7.What is Construction Labour?
Construction
industry employs around three million workers and the nature of work is
considered hazardous. Large number of unskilled and semiskilled labour both
male and female is employed on various form of building operation and road
constructions.
8. Describe Handicapped and Disabled Workmen? Write
down its categories?
A
handicapped person is one who is having some shortcoming or infirmity which
detracts a person from being a normal human being.
Handicapped
may be divided into different categories viz.
*Physically
handicapped, *Mentally handicapped, *Socially handicapped, and *Aged persons.
9.Write down the disablement benefit?
A person
who sustains disablement for not less than 3 days, in entitled to periodic
payment (at the rate of 40% more than the standard benefit rate which of `.14
or more depending upon his wages).
A person
who sustains permanent disablement whether total or partial is entitled to
periodical payment at such percentage of benefit payable in the cage of
disablement as of proportionate to the percentage of loss of earning capacity.
10.Define Social Security? What is mean by Social
Security?
Definition:
According
to Friedlander define as, ―The programme of protection provided by society
against the contingencies of modern life, sickness, unemployment, old age
dependency, industrial accidents and invalidism against which the individual
cannot be exploited to protect himself and his family by his own ability for
foresight‖.
Meaning of Social Security:
Social
Security means the security provided by the society to the needy citizens on
the principles of human dignity and social justice. Social Security Programmes
are now increasingly being accepted as useful and necessary instrumented for
the protection and stability of the labour force.
11.Write
down some important social security measures were introduced by the Government?
Workers
Compensation Act, 1923
Employees
State Insurance Act, 1948
Maternity
Benefits Act – By State and Central Gover nment
Coal
Mines Provident Fund and Bonus Act, 1948
Employees
Provident Fund Act, 1952
Family
Pension Schemes, 1971
Payment
of Gratuity Act, 1952
Deposit
Linked Insurance Scheme
Social
Security Certificate Scheme, 1982
12.Define Social Assistance? What is mean by Social
Assistance?
Definition
According
to I.L.O define as, ―A service or scheme which provides benefits to persons of
small means as right in amounts sufficient to meet minimum standards of need
and financed from taxation‖.
Meaning of Social Assistance
Social
Assistance schemes are funded from the consolidated fund of the state rather
than from individual contributions, with statutory scales of benefit adjusted
according to a person‘s means.
13.Define Social Insurance? Write down the
principle elements of social insurance?
Definition:
―Giving
in return for contribution, benefits upon subsistence level as if right and
without means tests so that an individual may build freely upon it. Thus social
insurance implies that it is compulsory and that men stand together with their
follows‖.
The
Principle elements of Social Insurance:
Ø Participation
is compulsory with few exceptions.
Ø Contributions
are accumulated in special funds out of which benefits are paid.
Ø Surplus
funds, not needed to pay current benefits are invested to earn further income.
Ø A
person‘s right to benefit is secured by his contribution record without any
list of need or means.
14.What do you mean by BPO & KPO Employees?
Communication
and information technology industry is an important enabler in enhancing
productivity. The structure and functions of IT industries are largely
different than the conventional organizations which demand a different rule of
the game to manage effectively.
15.Write a note on 3B’s.
Ø Buying
talents.
Ø Borrowing
talents and
Ø Building
talents.
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