Report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India

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Identifikator:: 1850495947

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-233603

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report of the Royal Commission on Labour in India

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: His Majesty's Stationery Off.

Year of publication:: 1931

Scope:: xviii, 580 S.; graph. Darst., Kt.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Art 4 APPENDIX 1, SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS. This summary was prepared by the Secretaries after the Commission had dis- persed. For quthoritative stalements of the recommendations feference should be made to the text of the Report. PAGES. CHAPTER 1[..—MIGRATION AND THE FAoTORY WORKER. 1. In present circumstances, the aim should be to maintain the fac- tory worker's link with the village and, as far as possible, to regularise it CuaprER II1—THE EMPLOYMENT OF THE FACTORY WORKER. 2. (a) Jobbers should be excluded from the engagement and dis. missal of labour ve +» . .w .w (b) Wherever the scale of the factory permits it, a labour officer should be appointed directly under the General Manager. His main functions should be in regard to engagements, dismissals and discharge xe ve vo ww ve {¢c) Where it is not possible to employ a whole-time labour »fficer, the manager or some responsible officer should retain complete sontrol of engagements and dismissals oo. ie es . (d) Employers’ associations in co-operation with trade unions should adopt a common policy to stamp out bribery Cee .e 3. Where women are engaged in substantial numbers, at least one educated woman should be appointed in charge of their welfare and supervision throughout the factory. She should be remunerated on a salary and not a commission basis and should be responsible to the labour officer or, if there is no labour officer, to the manager for the engage- ment and dismissal of all female staff oe .e “| " 4. Workers should be encouraged to apply for definite periods of leave and should go with a promise that on their return at the proper time they will be able to resume their old work ,e - we 6. Wherever possible, an allowance should be given to the worker who goes on leave after approved service .. oe .e Jn 6. The education of the industrial worker should receive special attention, but, in preference to concentrating on the education of half- timers, employers should try to develop the education of their workers’ children in their factory schools > 7. In applying compulsory education, {(#) municipalities should have regard to the special claims of wards inhabited by mill workers ; (b) it is desirable that the upper age-limit should be brought up to at least 12 years; and (¢) employers might assist by lending buildings, by equipping schools and in other ways . oe . e 8. The textile industries should endeavour to secure apprentices with a preliminary education ‘i ii os . oe 9. The Indian Jute Mills Association should combine to maintain a part-time school for selected adult and adolescent workers. Wherever there is a concentration of industry, the possibilities of similar co-opera- sive action deserve examination by employers ve 10. Where any comprehensive scheme for reducing staff is contem- plated in an industry, the introduction of a joint scheme of unemploy- ment insurance, e.g., the one outlined by the Fawcett Committee of 1928.29, should be considered .. > DA. OF Pd $n 4

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