A study on the Welfare Facilities and its Relationship towards Quality of Work Life of the Employees

Safety and welfare measures are inevitable to any organization where human work force are employed. The responsibility of any organization is to care for its employees and extend beyond the payment of wages for their services. Every employer’s vital concern is to provide safe and healthy environment to their employees which is a pre-requisite for any organization along with the employee’s quality of life, their standard of living and welfare on and off the job. The term welfare is understood as a state of wellbeing and it is felt as care towards human being. It is an acceptable point of cognizance on the physical, mental, moral and emotional factor of a person. Sufficient earnings, safe and conducive working conditions of and connectivity to some social security benefits are some of the important qualitative dimensions of employment that improves quality of life of workers and their productivity. However, the unorganized sector, which constitutes 90 percent of the total workforce does not have the privilege of such benefits. It is essential that some measures need to be taken on to improve the quality of working life of the unorganized workers, including women workers. This study deals with the welfare facilities and its relationship towards the quality of work life of their employees