This includes health insurance,
company sponsored dispensaries, maternity benefits and like wise. The
significant legislative step with regard to the health program was taken with
the enactment of the employee’s state insurance 1948. This is applicable to all
the no Seasonal factories employing 20 or more persons with a monthly wage of
Rs.500 or less. The factories Act provides detailed instruction cleanliness,
lighting, temperature control, artificial humidification, overcrowding etc.
Safety programs
The employers must provide a safe
environment to work in and must develop safe workers to perform the job. As a
measure of safety regulation, ESI schemes provide the disability benefits. The
factories Act prescribes detailed safety regulation, the fencing of the
machinery, testing and examination of the appliances such as hoists, lifts,
cranes, pressure vessels etc . The workman compensation Act also provides
worker with the protection against the disability and death caused in the
course of employment.
Pension programs
Many employees provide a lump-sum
amount to their employees, on the separation from his service due to
retirement, invalidity and depth. A full-fledged pension plan to the employees
was formulated with the enactment of employee’s provident fund Act, 1952. All
companies employing 20 or more persons are covered by the Act.
Other programs
Other
programs such as the maternity benefit, unemployment benefit, holiday and leave
benefit, credit societies etc are provided under statute.
It is useful
to consider welfare benefit under two basic categories, that is intra-mural andextra mural
Intra mural activities consist of
facilities provide with in the factories and include provisions for crèches and
canteens, supply of drinking water, facilities
for storing and drying clothing, provisions of safety measures, activity
relating to improving conditions of employment and occupation safety, uniforms
and protective clothing, health and medical facilities etc
Extramural activities cover the
services and facilities provided out side the factory such us housing
accommodation, indoor and outdoor recreational facilities, amusement and
sports, educational facilities for adults and children’s, and social insurance,
maternity benefits ,health and medical facilities ,leave and travel facilities,
vocational training
It may be started that the welfare
activities may be provided by the employer, the government, non-government
organization and the trade union while the employer provide will be started
later, the activities undertaken by the other agencies are mentioned here
These
facilities and benefits can be further classified into those provided by
legislation and those provided voluntarily by management or as a result of
bipartite settlements between management and the trade unions
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