EMPLOYEE WELFARE PRESENTER : ASLINDA BINTI HASSAN MATRIX : 227805 LECTURER : PROF. MADYA DR. NURHAZANI BT MOHD SHARIFF

WHAT IS EMPLOYEE WELFARE? Employee welfare is a term including various services, benefits and facilities offered to employees by the employers.  According to Todd “employee welfare means anything done for the comfort and improvement, intellectual or social, of the employees over and above the wages paid which is not a necessity of the industry.

OBJECTIVES OF EMPLOYEE WELFARE 1 To provide better life and health to the workers. 2 To make the workers happy, satisfied and efficient. 3 To reduces workers turnover and absenteeism. 4 To improve employee productivity.

AGENCIES OF EMPLOYEE WELFARE Central Government State Government Employers Workers’ Organisation

Central government: - The central government has made elaborate provisions for the health, safety and welfare under Factories Act 1948, and Mines Act 1952. These acts provide for canteens, rest rooms, shelters etc. State government: - Government in different states and Union Territories provide welfare facilities to workers. State government prescribes rules for the welfare of the workers and ensures compliance with the provisions under various labor laws. 

Employers: - It provide voluntarily welfare facilities including residential accommodation, medical, transport facilities, reading rooms, scholarships to children of workers, patronise teams etc Workers organization: - An association of workers united as a single, representative entity for the purpose of improving the workers' economic status and working conditions through collective bargaining with employers

TYPES OF WELFARE SERVICES ECONOMIC It provides additional economic security: Pension Life Assurance Credit Facilities RECREATIONAL In order to provide occasional diversions: Indoor Games Outdoor games(big organisations) FACILITATIVE These include: Canteen, rest room, lunch room Housing Medical Educational Leave travel concessions

IMPORTANT BENEFITS OF WELFARE MEASURES To Employees: Facilities like housing schemes, medical benefits, education and recreation facilities for workers’ families help in raising their standards of living. Provides better physical and mental health to workers and thus promote a healthy work environment This makes workers to pay more attention towards work and thus increases their productivity.

To Employer: Stable labor force by providing welfare facilities. Workers take active interest in their jobs and work with a feeling of involvement and participation. To Organization: Employee welfare measures increase the productivity of organization promote healthy industrial relations Helps to maintain maintaining industrial peace. The social evils prevalent among the labors such as substance abuse, etc. are reduced to a greater extent by the welfare policies.

CONCLUSION Labour welfare services is an important personnel function in a business. Effective utilization of other factors of production depends on the efficiency of human factor. The worker spends more than a quarter of his life in his working place. Therefore, the worker has every right to demand that the condition under which he works should be reasonable and provides proper safeguards for life and health. The amount of dedication, quality of work, commitment to the organization, morale etc. are all determined by the type and amount of welfare a worker receives.