Introduction

Employee welfare is a term including various services, benefits and facilities of

offered to employees by the employers. People are the most important asset of an

organisation, and the accounting profession has to assess and record the value and cost

of people of an organization. The value of human assets can be increased sustaintially

by making investment in their training and welfare activities in the same way as the

value of repairs/ overhauling etc. Labour welfare work is undertaken by various

groups within and outside an organisation to improve the living condition of workers.

The welfare measures need to be monetary but in any kind of forms. The objective is

to make the worker happy, healthy, committed and loyal. This includes items such as

allowances, housing transportation medical insurance and food. Employee welfare

also includes monitoring 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. Through such

generous benefits the employer makes life worth living for employees welfare

includes anything that is done for the comfort and improvement of employees 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 employees for longer duration.

Employee welfare includes monitoring 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.
Features

1) Labour welfare includes various facilities, services and amenities provided to

workers for improving their health, efficiency, economic, betterment and social

status.

2) Welfare measures are in addition to regular wages and other economic benefits

available to workers due to legal provisions and collective bargaining.

3) Labour welfare schemes are flexible and ever-changing – new-welfare

measures are added to the existing ones from time to time.

4) Welfare measures may be introduced by the employers government, employees

or by any social or charitable agency.

5) The purpose of labour welfare is to bring about the development of the whole

personality of the workers to make a better work force.

6) Labour welfare activities are undertaken to the benefit of workers and their

families.

7) Labour welfare activities may be statutory or non-statutory activities.

8) Labour welfare activities is a part of social welfare, conceptionally and

operationally.

9) Labour welfare activities are undertaken within the factory or in the vicinity of

the under takings.

Advantages

 They provide better physical and mental health to workers and thus promote a

healthy work environment.

 Facilities like housing schemes, medical benefits and education and recreation

facilities for workers families help in raising their standards of living. This

makes workers to pay more attention towards work and this increases their

productivity.

 Employers get stable labours force by providing welfare facilities. Workers

take active interest in their jobs and work with a feeling of involvement and

participation.

 Employee welfare measures increase the productivity of organisation and

promote healthy industrial relations thereby maintaining industrial peace.

 The social evils prevalent among the labours such as substance abuse etc are

reduced to a greater extent by the welfare policies.