Hi all There is this question which has pondered over me " whether NGO’s can facilitate labour welfare" Your valuable comments are awaited Naval
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Hi,
I think NGOs have a limited scope in labor welfare, whereas in any manufacturing industry, you can find a lot of scope for labor welfare because the company itself is responsible for the laborers who are working with them. NGOs have a lot of scope in child welfare, women's welfare, welfare of persons with disabilities, etc.
Regards, Subhashini
From India, Hyderabad
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I think NGOs have a limited scope in labor welfare, whereas in any manufacturing industry, you can find a lot of scope for labor welfare because the company itself is responsible for the laborers who are working with them. NGOs have a lot of scope in child welfare, women's welfare, welfare of persons with disabilities, etc.
Regards, Subhashini
From India, Hyderabad
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Hi,
In my personal opinion, NGOs can help, though we must understand that their canvas is quite wide and priorities could be different.
However, in urban and semi-urban industrialized centers, a healthy collaboration between the industry and the NGO can be very useful to the workers and their families.
Some of the common areas are health & hygiene, childcare, adult literacy, women's groups for income generation, de-addiction counseling centers, etc.
Frankly, there is every reason for every employer to take up such areas for useful work, but often the relationships at work affect such work as it may lack credibility. For example, if a company official visits a sick employee, the popular feeling amongst the workers is that the employers are checking out! There is a justified basis for such perception as these activities are rarely undertaken regularly and hardly, if at all, any concrete help is extended.
Even if the Factories Act has an entire chapter on "welfare," not much is done outside the compulsions of the law.
So, if an employer genuinely wishes to take up welfare work for its employees, it would be eminently wise to identify areas, allocate specific budgets, and then choose credible, competent NGOs and entrust the job to them. However, one must know that one cannot contract out of the law and outsource the whole lot of work!
Kindly see this as another viewpoint!
Regards,
Samvedan
February 25, 2007
From India, Pune
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In my personal opinion, NGOs can help, though we must understand that their canvas is quite wide and priorities could be different.
However, in urban and semi-urban industrialized centers, a healthy collaboration between the industry and the NGO can be very useful to the workers and their families.
Some of the common areas are health & hygiene, childcare, adult literacy, women's groups for income generation, de-addiction counseling centers, etc.
Frankly, there is every reason for every employer to take up such areas for useful work, but often the relationships at work affect such work as it may lack credibility. For example, if a company official visits a sick employee, the popular feeling amongst the workers is that the employers are checking out! There is a justified basis for such perception as these activities are rarely undertaken regularly and hardly, if at all, any concrete help is extended.
Even if the Factories Act has an entire chapter on "welfare," not much is done outside the compulsions of the law.
So, if an employer genuinely wishes to take up welfare work for its employees, it would be eminently wise to identify areas, allocate specific budgets, and then choose credible, competent NGOs and entrust the job to them. However, one must know that one cannot contract out of the law and outsource the whole lot of work!
Kindly see this as another viewpoint!
Regards,
Samvedan
February 25, 2007
From India, Pune
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