The Labour Welfare Department looks after the health, safety, social security & welfare of labourers by implementing labour laws through Commissionerate/ Inspectorate of Labour/Factories/Boilers/ ESI Scheme and Assam Tea Employees Provident Fund Organization.

The Labour Welfare Department is solely responsible for administration of all labour enactments (both Central and State) along with the Rules on number of subjects related to the welfare of labourers.

Labour Welfare Department is also responsible for discharging the judicial and semi-judicial functions pertaining to industrial disputes arising out of different labour problems through its conciliatory machineries and Industrial Tribunals and Labour Courts created under Section 7-A and Section-7 of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947.

There is a Research Cell with the following schemes at the Secretariat level which coordinates the functions of all under the Directorates under Labour Welfare Department and also monitors the working of Heads of Depts. in respect of schemes under different Labour Laws.