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Employee welfare
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INTRODUCTION:
Employee welfare work aims at providing such service facilities and
Amenities which enable the workers employed in an organization to perform
Their work in healthy congenial surrounding conductive to good health and
High morale.
Employee welfare is a comprehensive term including various services,
Benefits and facilities offered by the employer. Through such generous fringe
Benefits the employer makes life worth living for employees. The welfare
Amenities are extended in additional to normal wages and other economic
Rewards available to employees as per the legal provisions.
DEFINITION OF EMPLOYEE WELEARE:
Welfare measures may also be provided by the government, trade unions
And non-government agencies in addition to the employer. “International
Employee Organization efforts to make life worth living for workers” According
To the Oxford dictionary “Welfare is fundamentally an attitude of mind on the
Part of management influencing the method by which management activities
Are undertake
Employee Welfare as a term which is understood to include such services, facilities and amenities as may be established in the vicinity of undertaking to enable the persons employed in them to perform their work in healthy, congenial surrounding to provide them amenities conductive to good and healthy and high moral.
Importance of employee welfare activities:-
Employee welfare in India has a special significance as the constitution
Provides for the promotion of welfare of the employee for human conditions of
Work and securing to all workers.
The various welfare measures provided by the employee will have
Immediate impact on the health, physical and mental efficiency, alertness,
Morale and overall efficiency of the workers and thereby contributing to the
highest productivity.
Social security measure provided by employer will act as a protection to
The workers.
CONCEPT OF LABOUR WELFARE:
The National Commission on Labour has observed that the concept of “welfare” is necessary dynamic bearing a different interpretation from country to country and from time to time and even in the same country according to the value system, social Institution, degree of industrialization and general level of social and economic development. Even with one country its context may be different from region to region.
THE HISTORY OF LABOUR WELFARE :
The history of Labour Welfare in India started with the abolition of slavery system in 1833. Based on the recommendation of the International Labour Conference in 1870 held in Berlin, the Government of India modified the factories act in 1881.
Considering the suggestions given by the International Labour Organization, which set up in the year 1919, the Government of India enacted the factories act in 1922, the Government of India launched scheme of Labour Welfare in their ordnance ammunition and other factories in war production, to keep up the moral of workers and also to increase their productivity.
After the Independence the amendment of factories act in 1948, the Labour Welfare movement acquired new dimension, for one thing, the massive investments in industry during various plans increased in number of workmen. It was realized from the beginning that Labour Welfare had a positive role in increasing productivity and reducing industrial tensions. At this State Government enacted various legislations, regarding the welfare of the workers.
Grasim Industries Limited:
Grasim Industries was incorporated on 25 August 1947, exactly 10 days after India achieved independence Originally a textile manufacturer, Grasim has successfully diversified into VSF, cement and chemicals Aditya Birla Group is the world's largest producer of VSF The Aditya Birla Group is the 11th largest cement producer in the world and the seventh largest in Asia \Second largest producer of caustic soda in India Grasim and Graviera range of fabrics signify the 'power of fashion.
Grasim Industries Limited is the brightest feather in the cap of the Aditya Birla Group which one of the biggest private sector companies in India.
Grasim Industries was set up with the sole purpose of textiles manufacturing in the year 1948 but the company has entered into several commercial activities at a steady rate. Grasim Industries is numero uno in many of the sectors where it operates.
In order to enter the Indian cement industry, Grasim Industries took over a big chunk of the total shares and also the control of the management of the UltraTech Cement Limited, which was merged with the Larsen and Toubro Cement Company in 2004. Within a very short span of time, the company was able to penetrate a big portion of the market in India. Grasim industries, including its subsidiaries, operates 7 split grinding units, 11 composite plants, 4 bulk terminals, and 10 ready mix concrete units.