A Study on Safety and Welfare Measures Provided to the Employees in Textile Industry in Tirupur District

The textile plays a vital role in human life. Textile industries are one of the important industries of India for earning Foreign Exchange and giving employment to lakhs of workers. Because of being a highly labor intensive industry it needs to concentrate more in the area of employee welfare. As per this study, Welfare measures plays important role in employee satisfaction and it results in improved quality of work life. Employee welfare defines as “efforts to make life worth living for workmen”. These efforts have their origin either in some statute formed by the state or in some local custom or in collective agreement or in the employer's own initiative.