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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APPENDIX 1, 513 Pa GES (9) The qualifying period should in no case be less than 9 months and might be fixed at 12 months .. . xe (Ah) The more closely benefit can be linked with treatment the better : probably the best method is to give benefit in any case and to add a con finement bonus only if a trained midwife or hospital treatment is utilised Failure to use existing facilities should not disqualify the applicant, but bonus and benefit together should not exceed the amount laid down in the Act wh .. .. on we - we (#) The administration of the Act should be entrusted to the factory inspection staff and, wherever possible, to women factory inspectors .. 212. All methods should be explored that may lead to the allevia tion of existing hardships arising from the need of provision for sickness (a) Material should first be collected for the framing of an estimate of the incidence of sickness among workers, special statistical inquiries being instituted in selected centres as soon as possible . - (b) Assistance might be obtained from (¢) railways and Government factories, (4) employers who already have sickness benefit schemes, (#41) experiments voluntarily conducted by employers on oe (c) The statistics should be collected with expert medical and actua- rial advice and the co-operation of employers and representatives of workers .. . . » ' ti ve (d) The preliminary enquiries might be conducted by the Govern- ment of India who might secure for the purpose a small informal com- mittee from the Central Legislature including representatives of capital and labour. These with medical, actuarial and statistical assistance should be able to advise as to the nature of the statistics required, the centres where they might be collected, the sources from which, and the means whereby, they should be obtained .. ve #3 (e) Thereafter the question of framing schemes should be referred to a formal committee with instructions to examine the material and to make recommendations for the institution, if and where possible, of definite schemes it > oid en o (f) Pursuing the line of building on‘existing foundations the Com- mission commend for examination the outline of a tentative scheme based on separate medical provision, possibly by Government, and financial benefits in the form of paid sick leave given through employers on the basis of contributions by themselves and by the workers Lo CHAPTER XV.—HoUSING OF THE INDUSTRIAL WORKER. 213. Colliery housing :— (a) Small blocks of two to four houses in partitioned units should be more extensively used and new houses should have a window and roof ventilation oe .e » (b) The staff of the Board of Health should take every possible step to prohibit occupation of a house by more than one set of inhabitants .. .. . “s a3 (¢) Bathing and washing places should be built near each block . of houses .. . . . " os (d) Latrines of approved types should be generally installed, preferably of the septic-tank type ve EE (e) The graded system of coloured licenses at Jharia should be abolished forthwith . 265 265 265 265 266-7 267 267 267 967 DOG 7G 280 280 280 280 De

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