A STUDY ON LABOUR WELFARE MEASURES

B.DIVYA
Asan institute of management , Asan memorial college of arts and science
Chennai

ABTRACT
“Welfare is comfortable living and good working conditions”. Labour welfare means
the efforts to make life worth living for workman. Industrial progress of a country depends on its
committed human resource. In this regard the importance of labour welfare was recognized as
early as 1931,when the Royal commission on labour stated that the benefits which go under this
nomenclature are of great importance to the worker who is unable to secure by himself. The
schemes of labour may be regarded as “a wise investment” which should and usually does bring
a profitable return in the form of greater efficiency .

“Welfare comfortable living and working conditions”. People are the most important
asset of an organization, and the accounting profession has to assess and record the value and
cost of people of an organization. Once this is accepted, the need for measuring the value for
recording it in the books of accounts arises. The value of human assets can be increased
substantially by making investment in their training and welfare activities in the same way as
the value of repairs / overhauling, etc.

INTRODUCTION
According to the Oxford dictionary employ means “ the efforts to make life worth living for
work men”. “According to I.L.O report , “Workers welfare may be understood as including such
services, facilities and amenities which may be established in, or in the vicinity of undertaking to
perform their work in healthy and congenial surroundings and to avail of facilities which
improve their health and bring high morale”.

Welfare includes anything that is done for the comfort and improvement of labour and is
provided over and above the wages. Welfare helps in keeping the morale and motivation of the
employees high so as to retain the labour for longer duration . The welfare measures need not be
in monetary terms only but in any kind / forms. labour welfare includes onitomring of working
conditions, creation of industrial harmony through infrastructure for health, industrial relations
and insurance against disease, accident and unemployment for the workers and their families.

NEED FOR THE STUDY

The study is very important to understand about the effective of Labor welfare measures :
 To find whether labor welfare helps in providing good industrial relations.
 To know about the employees satisfaction towards welfare measures.
OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
 To identify the various welfare measures provided to the employees.
 To know their satisfaction towards the welfare measures.
 To understand how welfare measures improve the motivation of the employees.

LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY

 Through the research was done in a systematic and planned manner, there were few
hurdles that could not be overcome. These constituted the limitations of the research.
 This primary data is collected from these employees during their little leisure hours
and co-operation in responding to the schedule was not encouraging.
 The data given by the employee may not be accurate as they are confidential .

REVIEW OF LITERATURE

Sailesh sindhu (2012) felt that , employee welfare measure increase the productivity of
organization and promote healthy industrial relations thereby maintaining industrial peace.
Organizations provide welfare facilities to their employee to keep their motivates levels high.
Business houses provide many such statutory and non-statutory things and policies to maintain
satisfactory level of their employees.Ramesh M (2012) pointed out that the main thrust of labour
policy and labour law is to change in line with the global changes that is the from welfare and
regulative orientation to develop role in market oriented economy, from regulatory
mechanization to voluntarism, tripartism to bipartism so that the employers and employees are
themselves able to mutually decide without government intervention.K. Jayanthi , P.Ashok
kumar, and V. Manjku,(2012) stated that labour sector addresses multi-dimensional socio-
economic aspects affecting labour welfare, productivity, living standards of labour force and
social security. To raise living standards training is of work force and achieve higher
productivity, skill upgradation through suitable training is of utmost importance. Manpower
development to provide adequate labour force of appropriate skills and quality to different
sectors is essential for rapid socio-economic development. Employment generation in all the
productive sectors is one of the basic objectives.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

The type of research design used in this study is the descriptive research. Because, it
helps to describe the characteristics of a particular group of people, working within a company.
The characteristics of a work group may differ in many ways in different companies. Each group
may have separate reasons for exhibiting such characteristics within the company. The
descriptive study was carried out to seek these reasons. Careful design of descriptive studies was
necessary to ensure the complete interpretation of the situation and to ensure minimum bias in
the collection of data.
Sample design – sample technique used in convenience sample technique.
Sample size - The sample size of 120 labors was chosen from this industry.

STATISTIAL TOOLS:
o ANOVA
o T-test

One Way ANOVA:

If the effect is tested only for one factor (one independent variable) on the variable (dependent)
in question, then it is called univariate analysis.
T-TEST:
T-test is based on t-distribution and is considered an appropriate test for judging the significant
of the sample mean or for judging the significant difference between the means of two samples
in case of small samples when population variance is not known ( in which case we use variance
of the sample as an estimate of the variance ) . In case two samples related, we use paired T-test
(or what is known as difference test ) for judging the significant of the coefficients of the sim

ONE WAY ANOVA TEST

AIM:

To test whether there is a significant difference between experience of the respondents and
satisfaction level of various allowances offered by the company.

NULL HYPOTHESIS :

Ho: There is no significant difference between experience of the respondents and satisfaction
level of various allowances offered by the company.

ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESIS :

H1: There is significant difference between experience of the respondents and satisfaction level
of various allowances offered by the company.
TABLE:4.2.2

ANOVA

Sum of df Mean Square F Sig.

Squares
Between Groups 13.392 4 3.348 24.680 .000
Within Groups 15.600 115 .136
Total 28.992 119
INFERENCE

Since P is lesser than 0.01, alternative hypothesis is accepted at a significance level of 1%.Hence
it is concluded that there is significant difference between experience of the respondents and
satisfaction level of various allowances offered by the company.

INDEPENDENT SAMPLE T- TEST

AIM:

To test whether there is a significant difference between gender of the respondents and overall
satisfaction with the statutory welfare facilities provided by the organization.

NULL HYPOTHESIS :

Ho: There is no significant difference between gender of the respondents and overall
satisfaction with the statutory welfare facilities provided by the organization.

ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESIS :

H1: There is significant difference between gender of the respondents and overall satisfaction
with the statutory welfare facilities provided by the organization.

TABLE:4.2.3

Independent sample T-test

Std. Std. Error t Sig. (2-

GENDER N Mean Deviation Mean tailed)
state your overall
satisfaction with the MALE 49 2.7551 0.94716 .135 -12.015 0.00
statutory welfare
facilities provided by the
company FEMALE 71 1.2254 0.42079 .499 -10.606 0.00

INFERENCE
Since P is lesser than 0.01, alternative hypothesis is accepted at a significance level of 1%.Hence
it is concluded that there is significant difference between gender of the respondents and overall
satisfaction with the statutory welfare facilities provided by the organization.
FINDINGS
 It was found that there is association between department of the respondents and
overtime allowances offered by the organization . It shows that all department employees
are not provided with the overtime and allowances except package department.
 It was found that there is significant between experience of the respondents and various
allowances offered by the organization . It shows that various allowances provided based
on the experience of the company.
 It was found that there is significant difference between gender of the respondents and
overall statutory welfare facilities provided by the company. It shows that female
employees are given more priority in providing welfare facilities rather than male
employees.
CONCLUSION
Labour welfare are advocated to maintain a strengthen manpower both physically and mentally.
The study it is observe that kaleesuwari refinery private limited is provided various facilities to
the employees. The management required to provided good facilities to all workers in such way
that workers become satisfied about labour welfare facilities. It increases productivity as well as
quality and quantity. Therefore there is the necessity of making some provision for improving
the welfare facilities through the employees will become happy, employee performance level
become increase. It leads to improve favorable effects of profitability and products of the
organization. At last it can conclude that the employee welfare facilities provided by the
company to employees are satisfied, but still of scope is there for further improvement ,so that
efficiency, effectiveness and productivity can be enhanced to accomplish the organizational
goals.
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