Employee Welfare
INTRODUCTION
Employee welfare means a planned programme of activities or schemes that lead to the benefits of employee, in practical sense the above meaning is not exhaustive. According to the report of the Royal Commission Labour, the term welfare as applied to the industrial worker is one which must necessarily provide and is having different interpretation in one country from another, according to the different social customs, the degree of industrialization and educational development of the workers. In scientific sense, the meaning of the term “employee welfare’’ in any specific country will depend upon the conditions of the labour. Labour in a country includes not only uneducated but also educated people.
As per Encyclopedia of Social Sciences “employee welfare implies the voluntary efforts of the employers to establish, within the existing industrial system, working and some times living conditions of workers beyond what is required by law, the custom of the industry and the conditions of the market”.
It means the voluntary steps taken on the part of employer to improve conditions of his employees. “Welfare activities in sense are those services, facilities and amenities to provide congenial surroundings and enable then to have good health and improve high morale”, so in this way, the term Labour welfare implies schemes and activities that produce conditions improve the health of the workers as well as those circumstances that improve their morale.
Employee Welfare is a comprehensive term, and refers to the physical, mental, moral and emotional well being of an individual. Further, the term welfare is a relative concept, relative in time and space. It, therefore, varies from time to time, from region to region and from country to country.
Employee welfare, also referred to as betterment work for employees, relates to taking care of the well being of workers by employers, trade unions, and governmental and non-Governmental agencies. It is
Employee welfare means a planned programme of activities or schemes that lead to the benefits of employee, in practical sense the above meaning is not exhaustive. According to the report of the Royal Commission Labour, the term welfare as applied to the industrial worker is one which must necessarily provide and is having different interpretation in one country from another, according to the different social customs, the degree of industrialization and educational development of the workers. In scientific sense, the meaning of the term “employee welfare’’ in any specific country will depend upon the conditions of the labour. Labour in a country includes not only uneducated but also educated people.
As per Encyclopedia of Social Sciences “employee welfare implies the voluntary efforts of the employers to establish, within the existing industrial system, working and some times living conditions of workers beyond what is required by law, the custom of the industry and the conditions of the market”.
It means the voluntary steps taken on the part of employer to improve conditions of his employees. “Welfare activities in sense are those services, facilities and amenities to provide congenial surroundings and enable then to have good health and improve high morale”, so in this way, the term Labour welfare implies schemes and activities that produce conditions improve the health of the workers as well as those circumstances that improve their morale.
Employee Welfare is a comprehensive term, and refers to the physical, mental, moral and emotional well being of an individual. Further, the term welfare is a relative concept, relative in time and space. It, therefore, varies from time to time, from region to region and from country to country.
Employee welfare, also referred to as betterment work for employees, relates to taking care of the well being of workers by employers, trade unions, and governmental and non-Governmental agencies. It is
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