Labour administration
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The document discusses labor administration, including defining it as public bodies involved in labor policy and standards set by the ILO. It outlines the history and roles of labor inspection, standards, and administration. Key topics covered include labor policies and acts in India, the functions of labor administration in projects and regional integration, and legislative acts related to employment, wages, and industrial relations.
Labour administration
- 1. Labor administration Presented by- Ayisha Kowsar A MBA http://www.ilo.org/labadmin
- 2. • Labour administration is a wide term. • It is primarily concerned with labour affairs and administration of social policy. • The meeting of experts on labour administration held in Geneva in October 1973. • To deal with the major substantive programmes of labour administration. BACKGROUND
- 3. ILO concept of labour administration • LA: all public bodies involved in labour policy. • ILO and Labour Administration. • ILO and Labour Inspection. • Social Partners and Labour Administration.
- 4. International Labour Standards • Historically, labour inspectorates among the first labour institutions • Founding of the ILO (1919), creation of Ministries of Labour • Labour Inspection Recommendation, 1923 (No. 20) • Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) • Labour Inspection (Agriculture) Convention, 1969 (No. 129) • Labour Administration Convention, 1978 (No. 150) • Protocol of 1995 to the Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 • Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) • Promotional Framework for OSH Convention, 2006 (No. 187)
- 6. UNION LIST Participation in international conferences , associations & other bodies & implementing decisions made threat. Port quarantine , including hospitals connected therewith , seamen’s & marine hospitals. Regulation of labour & safety in mines and oilfields; Industrial disputes concerning union employees. The promotion of special studies & research. Enquiries surveys and statistics for the purpose of any of the matters in this list.
- 7. CONCURRENT LIST Economic & social planning. Trade unions , industrial and labour disputes. Social security and social insurance employment and unemployment. Welfare of labour, including conditions of work, provident fund, employers liability, workmen’s compensation, invalidity and old age pensions, and maternity benefits. Vocational and technical training of labour.
- 8. STATE LIST Public order. Public health & sanitation. Hospitals & dispensaries. Relief of the disabled & un employable.
- 10. LABOUR POLICY A five year programme for labour. Was drawn up in 1946 when the interim national government came to power at the centre. In the course of a debate in the Central Legislative Assembly in 1946 by Shri Jagjivan Ram the member in charge of labour. Govt. had formulated a plan for bringing about essential reforms in the interest of the working classes of India.
- 11. MAIN FEATURES OF LABOUR POLICY Statutory prescription of minimum wages in sweated industries and occupations and in agriculture. Promotion of fair wage agreements. Steps to secure for workers in plantations a living wage. Reduction in working hours. Recently 54 to 48 per week. Weekly rest periods, holidays with pay. Enforcement of right standards regarding to lighting, ventilation, safety, health,& welfare of workers.
- 12. CONT….. Conditions of work are to be improved particularly in unorganised industries and work places to which the present factories act does not apply. Provision of creches and canteens. Welfare of the coal mining labour and welfare of the mica mining labour. Strengthening of the inspection staff and the inspectorate of mines.
- 13. Labour Inspection: Trends and Challenges (contd.) • Traditional and new challenges. • Poor conditions in most developing countries threatening integrity and independence of the staff. • Informal economy, domestic work, undeclared work (e.g. construction, agriculture). • Regulation and prevention of child labour. • Discrimination issues: gender, HIV/AIDS, race, national extraction, etc.
- 14. THE PROJECT AND LABOUR ADMINISTRATION Importance of Labour Administration: Labour administration is a fundamental issue in regional integration processes. Leading role: Ensuring enforcement of and respect for fundamental principles and rights at work, fostering integral development of individuals and their productive potential; Improving labour institutions to increase economic security for workers and their families; Improving the functioning of the labour market and understanding of the impact of integration on labour.
- 15. THE PROJECT AND LABOUR ADMINISTRATION Labour administration functions analysed: 1. Workplace and Labour Relations Labour inspection; safety and health at work; dissemination of information about labour norms; conciliation, mediation and arbitration 2. Employment Employment and professional training; operational bodies and programmes; job-creation policies and programmes; placement or employment offices 3. Relations with representatives of the community 4. Generation of information and analytical capacity 5. Human and material resources 6. Organisation and functioning
- 16. LEGISLATIVE ACTS o Workers regulation of employment act 1948 o Employment exchange act 1959 o Apprentices act 1961 o District emigrant labour act 1932 o Mines act 1952 o Motor transport workers act 1961 o Trade unions act 1926 o Industrial employment act 1946 o Industrial disputes act 1947 o Payment & wages act 1935