A study on labour wellbeing measures in Ashok Leyland Pvt. Ltd., Chennai

Welfare benefits are a necessity in every organization today. The philosophy of labour welfare and its necessity was mentioned in a resolution passed by the Indian National Congress on fundamental rights and economic programme in its Karachi Session in 1931. To survive and prosper, in this toughest competitive environment, domestic companies have to prepare and develop their employees to compete with overseas organizations in skills, efficiency and effectiveness. The present study is made an attempt to identify welfare facilities and employee's satisfaction level about welfare facilities adopted at Ashok Leyland limited, Chennai. To achieve the aforesaid objective data is gathered from employees of the organization with random sampling technique. It is found that most of the respondents are aware about the statutory and non-statutory employee welfare facilities provided at the Company, welfare facilities like medical, canteen, working environment, safety measures etc., are provided by the company. And most of the employees are satisfied with the welfare facilities adopted by the company towards the employee's welfare.