SUBJECT: SOCIAL WORK

CLASS: HRM
PAPER: HRM (Specialization)
TOPIC: ROLE OF WELFARE OFFICER
Key words: welfare officer

Anil Kumar Chaudhary

Department of Social Work

Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith,

Varanasi

anil.socialwork@gmail.com
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Basic Informations of Welfare Officer:

A Welfare Officer shall be appointed for
Factories employing between 500 to 2000
workers. Where the number of workers
exceeds 2000, there shall be an additional
Welfare Officer for every additional two
thousand workers or fraction thereof over 500.
This provision enacted through section 49(1) of
the Factories Act, 1948.

Minimum qualifications- Under the section

49(2) of the F.A.,1948 the [State Govt.] may
prescribe the duties, qualifications and
conditions of service of officer.
Roles:

• maintaining harmonious relations

• notice to management the grievances

• act as a liaison officer

• help to management for shaping of factory,

formulate and interpret of policy

• to watch industrial relations

• to advice for fulfilment of obligations and

statutory provisions

• to advice and assist, if Safety Officcer not

appoint

• to promote such relations for promote

productive efficiency and working environment
to encourage the formation of Works /
Joint Production Committee and Welfare
Committees with supervision

to encourage provisions of amenities

to help the management in regulating the

grants of leave with wages

to advise on questions relating to

provisions of welfare facilities

to advise the management on questions

relating training

to suggest measures standard of living

and promote well-being in general of
workers
 Not done by Welfare Officer-

• He has not to deal with disciplinary cases or appear

on behalf of the management against workers

• He can’t be deal with any disciplinary case against

a worker, or appear before a Conciliation Officer, or
in a Court or Tribunal on behalf of the factory
against a worker and workers.