Status of Provisions of the Factories Act, 1948 - A study at Penna Cement Industries Limited (PCIL), Tadipatri.

Abstract

This research paper focus on exploring the status of awareness & satisfactory levels of various provisions of Indian Factories act, 1948 in the target organisation 'Penna Cement Industries Limited' located at Tadipatri in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh. The paper initially describes the background of Labour Legislation in India and its classification. The need, importance and objectives of the research is than stated followed by the Literature review that briefs the important provisions of the Factories Act pertaining to Labour and the Industry & Company profile where the research is conducted. The research targets to know the awareness and satisfactory levels of the provisions of Factories act among the lower class of employees by taking a sample of 50 employees by Random Sampling method from the total population of lower class of employees in the organisation. The primary data collected through the Interviewing and Questionnaires. The questionnaire was made as simple as possible and where required it was read out & explained in the local language to many of the employees by the researcher because the majority of the sample population were not well educated. The secondary data was collected through various company publications like Annual Reports, Files and documents related to labour welfare and books, journals, research articles related to Factories Act, 1948. The results indicate that the overall awareness levels of the various provisions of the Factories Act, 1948 is not very high but the satisfactory levels with the facilities provided by the organisation seems to be adequate among the sample employees. In simple words, though the sample employees are not very much aware of the facilities they are to be provided by the Factories Act, 1984, they are being provided with adequate health. Safety & welfare measured by the organisation which is keeping the employees satisfied.