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DEFINITION OF EMPLOYEES WELFARE According to Balfour committee, “Labour welfare refers to the efforts made by the employers to improve the working and living conditions over and above the wages paid to them. In its widest sense it comprises all matters affecting the health, safety, comfort and general welfare of the workmen, and includes provision for education, recreation, thrift schemes, convalescent homes”. It covers almost fields of activities of workers e.g., social, economic, industrial and educational. According to N.M. Joshi, “welfare work covers all the efforts which employers take for the benefit of their employees over and above the minimum standards of working conditions fixed by the Factories Act and over and above the provisions of the social legislation providing against accident, old age, unemployment and sickness”. Labour welfare implies the setting up of minimum desirable standards of the provision of facilities like health, food, clothing, housing, medical assistance, education, insurance, job security, recreation etc. Such facilities enable the worker and his family to lead a good working life, family life and social life. Labour welfare activities benefit not only the workers but also the management in term of greater industrial efficiency.Labour welfare means anything done for the comfort and improve-ment, intellectual or social, of the employee over and above the wages paid which is not necessity of the industry by Arthur James Todd

Employees welfare may be understood as including such services facilities and amenities, which may be established in, Orin the vicinity of under¬takings to perform their work in healthy and congenial surroundings and to avail of facilities which improve their health and bring high mo-rale by ILO report.