A Bird View of Labour Welfare in India

“Labour welfare means such services, facilities and amenities which may be established in, or in the vicinity or undertaking to enable persons employed there in to perform their work in healthy and congenial surroundings and to provide them with amenities conductive to good health and good morals” - International Labour Organisation. Indian Constitution provides labour welfare through promotion of welfare of the labour for human condition of work and securing to all workers leisure, social and cultural opportunities. Labour welfare is measure to promote the efficiency of labour and this activities designed for the promotion of the economic, social and cultural well being of the employees. The various welfare measures provided by the employer will have immediate impact on the health, physical and mental efficiency, alertness, morale and overall efficiency of the workers and thereby contributing to the higher productivity. In addition to this the workmen needs protection from certain disaster which sovereign their efficiency. Social security measure provided by employer will act as a protection to the workers. Social security objectives at providing collective measures to protect the employee of a community against social risk as their individual resources are hardly adequate to after protection against hardship. Both assistance and social insurance from integral parts of the system of social security. Labour welfare provides the extra quantity to industrial relationship which ever a adequate wage alone cannot provide. The term labour welfare includes anything concluded for intellectual, physical, moral and economic betterment of worker by government or by other agencies over and above what laid down by law in various contingencies like illness, unemployment, disability and death which have direct impact on the well being of the worker and the dependent.