Industrial Relations & Employee Welfare
Industrial Relations
• Industrial relations involve attempts at arriving at solutions between the conflicting objectives and values; between the profit motive and social gain; between discipline and freedom, between authority and industrial democracy; between bargaining and co-operation; and between conflicting interests of the individual, the group and the community • The term „Industrial Relations? comprises of two terms: „Industry? and „Relations?. “Industry” refers to “any productive activity in which an individual (or a group of individuals) is (are) engaged”. By “relations” we mean “the relationships that exist within the industry between the employer and his workmen.”
Industry
• An industry is a whole gamut of activities that are carried on by an employer with the help of his employees and labors for production and distribution of goods to earn profit.
Employer
• A person or business that pays a wage or fixed payment to other person(s) in exchange for the services of such persons. • A person who directly engages a worker/employee in employment. • Any person who employs, whether directly or through another person or agency, one or more employees in any scheduled employment in respect of which minimum rates of wages have been fixed.
Employee
• Employee is a person who is hired by another person or business for a wage or fixed payment in exchange for personal services and who does not provide the services as part of an independent business.
Labor Market
• The market in which workers compete for jobs and employers compete for workers. • It acts as the external source from which organizations attract employees. • These markets occur because different conditions characterize different geographical areas, industries, occupations, and professions at any given time.
Industrial Relations System
• An industrial relations system consists of the whole gamut of relationships between employees and employers which are managed by the means of conflict and cooperation.
Actors in the IR System
Employers : Employers possess certain rights to hire and fire them. Management can also affect worker’s interests by exercising their right to relocate, close or merge the factory or to introduce technological changes.
Employees
• Workers seek to improve the terms and conditions of their employment. • They exchange views with management and voice their grievances. • They also want to share decision making powers of management. • Workers generally unite to form unions against the management and get support from these unions.
Government
• The central and state government influences and regulates industrial relations through laws, rules, agreements. • It also includes third parties and labor and tribunal courts.
Scope Of IR
• Collective Bargaining • Machinery for settlement of industrial disputes • Standing Orders • Workers participation in Management • Unfair labor practices
Importance Of IR
• Uninterrupted Production • Reduction in Industrial Disputes
• High Morale
• Mental Revolution • Reduced Wastage
Objectives of Industrial Relations System
• To safeguard the interest of labor and management by securing the highest level of mutual understanding and good-will among all those sections in the industry which participate in the process of production. • To avoid industrial conflict or strife and develop harmonious relations, which are an essential factor in the productivity of workers and the industrial progress of a country. • To raise productivity to a higher level in an era of full employment by lessening the tendency to high turnover and frequency absenteeism.
Grievances in Industry
• Grievances means dissatisfaction or discontentments arising out of factors related to an employee’s job which the employee thinks are unfair. • It arises when an employee feels that something has happened or is happening to him which the employee thinks is unfair, unjust or inequitable.
Factors
• Violation of management’s responsibility such as poor working conditions • Violation of company’s rules and regulations • Violation of labor laws • Violation of natural rules of justice such as unfair treatment in promotion, etc
Causes of Industrial Dispute
Wages and allowances Personnel
Indiscipline and violence
Bonus
Leave and working hours
Retrenchment
Strikes & Lock Outs
Strikes
• A strike is spontaneous and concerted refusal of work and withdrawal of labor from production temporarily. • It is a collective stoppage of work for pressurizing their employers to accept certain demands.
Causes of strikes
Dissatisfaction with company policy Increment not up to the mark Salary and incentive problems Wrongful discharge or dismissal of workmen Hours of work and rest intervals Bonus, profit sharing, Provident fund and gratuity Dispute connected with minimum wages
Withdrawal of any concession or privilege Leaves with wages and holidays Retrenchment of workmen and closure of establishment
LockOuts
Lock Out
• It is the counterpart of strike. • It is the weapon available with employer to close down the factory till the workers agree to resume work on the conditions laid down by employer. • If it is impossible to meet the demands of workers, employers may decide o go for lock-out • An employer may also pull down the shutters so as to bring psychological pressure on the workers to agree to his conditions or face the closure of unit
Employee Welfare
Welfare
• It includes anything that is done for the comfort and improvement of employees, provided over and above the wages. • It helps in keeping the morale and motivation of the employees high so as to retain the employees for longer duration. • It 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.
Objectives
• To provide better life and health to the workers • To make the workers happy and satisfied • To relieve workers from industrial fatigue and to improve intellectual, cultural and material conditions of living of the workers.
Features
• Labor welfare includes various facilities, services and amenities provided to workers for improving their health, efficiency, economic betterment and social status.
• Welfare measures are in addition to regular wages and other economic benefits available to workers due to legal provisions and collective bargaining • Labor welfare schemes are flexible and ever-changing. New welfare measures are added to the existing ones from time to time.
Features …..(Contd..)
• Welfare measures may be introduced by the employers, government, employees or by any social or charitable agency. • The purpose of labor welfare is to bring about the development of the whole personality of the workers to make a better workforce.
Statutory Schemes
Drinking Water Facilities For sitting First Aid Appliances Latrines & Urinals
Canteen Facilities
Spittoons
Lighting
Washing Places
Changing Rooms
Restrooms
Non Statutory Schemes
Personal Health Care (Regular medical check-ups): Employee Assistance Programs Flexi-time
Harassment Policy
Maternity & Adoption Leave
Medi-claim Insurance Scheme
Employee Referral Scheme
THANK YOU
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Industrial Relations
• Industrial relations involve attempts at arriving at solutions between the conflicting objectives and values; between the profit motive and social gain; between discipline and freedom, between authority and industrial democracy; between bargaining and co-operation; and between conflicting interests of the individual, the group and the community • The term „Industrial Relations? comprises of two terms: „Industry? and „Relations?. “Industry” refers to “any productive activity in which an individual (or a group of individuals) is (are) engaged”. By “relations” we mean “the relationships that exist within the industry between the employer and his workmen.”
Industry
• An industry is a whole gamut of activities that are carried on by an employer with the help of his employees and labors for production and distribution of goods to earn profit.
Employer
• A person or business that pays a wage or fixed payment to other person(s) in exchange for the services of such persons. • A person who directly engages a worker/employee in employment. • Any person who employs, whether directly or through another person or agency, one or more employees in any scheduled employment in respect of which minimum rates of wages have been fixed.
Employee
• Employee is a person who is hired by another person or business for a wage or fixed payment in exchange for personal services and who does not provide the services as part of an independent business.
Labor Market
• The market in which workers compete for jobs and employers compete for workers. • It acts as the external source from which organizations attract employees. • These markets occur because different conditions characterize different geographical areas, industries, occupations, and professions at any given time.
Industrial Relations System
• An industrial relations system consists of the whole gamut of relationships between employees and employers which are managed by the means of conflict and cooperation.
Actors in the IR System
Employers : Employers possess certain rights to hire and fire them. Management can also affect worker’s interests by exercising their right to relocate, close or merge the factory or to introduce technological changes.
Employees
• Workers seek to improve the terms and conditions of their employment. • They exchange views with management and voice their grievances. • They also want to share decision making powers of management. • Workers generally unite to form unions against the management and get support from these unions.
Government
• The central and state government influences and regulates industrial relations through laws, rules, agreements. • It also includes third parties and labor and tribunal courts.
Scope Of IR
• Collective Bargaining • Machinery for settlement of industrial disputes • Standing Orders • Workers participation in Management • Unfair labor practices
Importance Of IR
• Uninterrupted Production • Reduction in Industrial Disputes
• High Morale
• Mental Revolution • Reduced Wastage
Objectives of Industrial Relations System
• To safeguard the interest of labor and management by securing the highest level of mutual understanding and good-will among all those sections in the industry which participate in the process of production. • To avoid industrial conflict or strife and develop harmonious relations, which are an essential factor in the productivity of workers and the industrial progress of a country. • To raise productivity to a higher level in an era of full employment by lessening the tendency to high turnover and frequency absenteeism.
Grievances in Industry
• Grievances means dissatisfaction or discontentments arising out of factors related to an employee’s job which the employee thinks are unfair. • It arises when an employee feels that something has happened or is happening to him which the employee thinks is unfair, unjust or inequitable.
Factors
• Violation of management’s responsibility such as poor working conditions • Violation of company’s rules and regulations • Violation of labor laws • Violation of natural rules of justice such as unfair treatment in promotion, etc
Causes of Industrial Dispute
Wages and allowances Personnel
Indiscipline and violence
Bonus
Leave and working hours
Retrenchment
Strikes & Lock Outs
Strikes
• A strike is spontaneous and concerted refusal of work and withdrawal of labor from production temporarily. • It is a collective stoppage of work for pressurizing their employers to accept certain demands.
Causes of strikes
Dissatisfaction with company policy Increment not up to the mark Salary and incentive problems Wrongful discharge or dismissal of workmen Hours of work and rest intervals Bonus, profit sharing, Provident fund and gratuity Dispute connected with minimum wages
Withdrawal of any concession or privilege Leaves with wages and holidays Retrenchment of workmen and closure of establishment
LockOuts
Lock Out
• It is the counterpart of strike. • It is the weapon available with employer to close down the factory till the workers agree to resume work on the conditions laid down by employer. • If it is impossible to meet the demands of workers, employers may decide o go for lock-out • An employer may also pull down the shutters so as to bring psychological pressure on the workers to agree to his conditions or face the closure of unit
Employee Welfare
Welfare
• It includes anything that is done for the comfort and improvement of employees, provided over and above the wages. • It helps in keeping the morale and motivation of the employees high so as to retain the employees for longer duration. • It 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.
Objectives
• To provide better life and health to the workers • To make the workers happy and satisfied • To relieve workers from industrial fatigue and to improve intellectual, cultural and material conditions of living of the workers.
Features
• Labor welfare includes various facilities, services and amenities provided to workers for improving their health, efficiency, economic betterment and social status.
• Welfare measures are in addition to regular wages and other economic benefits available to workers due to legal provisions and collective bargaining • Labor welfare schemes are flexible and ever-changing. New welfare measures are added to the existing ones from time to time.
Features …..(Contd..)
• Welfare measures may be introduced by the employers, government, employees or by any social or charitable agency. • The purpose of labor welfare is to bring about the development of the whole personality of the workers to make a better workforce.
Statutory Schemes
Drinking Water Facilities For sitting First Aid Appliances Latrines & Urinals
Canteen Facilities
Spittoons
Lighting
Washing Places
Changing Rooms
Restrooms
Non Statutory Schemes
Personal Health Care (Regular medical check-ups): Employee Assistance Programs Flexi-time
Harassment Policy
Maternity & Adoption Leave
Medi-claim Insurance Scheme
Employee Referral Scheme
THANK YOU
doc_577108043.pptx