The objects for which the Federation is established are:
1. To consider all questions concerning the relations between employers and employees in Southern India, and to collect, classify, circulate and publish statistics and other information relating thereto:
2. To encourage and promote good feeling and to establish just and equitable principles in dealings between employers and employees in Southern India, and to promote and support all appropriate schemes for the general improvement of employer-employee relations;
3. To promote and protect the interests of employers engaged in trade, commerce, manufacture and industries of Southern India in the areas of industrial relations;
4. To advise employers on matters, relating to employer-employee relations, to assist them in the settlement of disputes and to represent or arrange for the representation of employers in any proceedings before Conciliation Officers, Conciliation Boards, Courts of Enquiry,
Industrial Tribunals, Labour Court or any Court or other judicial or quasi-judicial body and any tripartite bodies or other statutory bodies.
5. To arbitrate in the settlement of disputes arising out of matters affecting the relationship of employers and employees, between parties agreeing to abide by the judgement of the Federation.
6. To negotiate on behalf of employers with trade unions and / or other employees’ organisations;
7. To promote, examine and offer suggestions to legislative or other measures affecting the terms and conditions of service, welfare, health, education and regulations and control of employees, and to make representations to local, State, Central, Commonwealth, International and other authorities on matters connected with these objects or any of them:
8. To promote management and technical education including training and in furtherance to set up either by itself or in collaboration with any other body, training institutes, etc.
9. To assist members in improving employee and industrial relations by
(a) organising where necessary in association with other institutions, programmes / courses on personnel management and industrial relations
(b) maintaining reading rooms, library and any information center
(c) opening regional / branch offices and
(d) creating endowments for furthering the Federation’s objectives and receiving contributions for such purposes;
10. To subscribe, to affiliate with and / or become a member of and cooperate with any other Association, national or international, whether incorporated or not, whose objects are altogether or in part similar to those of this Federation, and to procure from and communicate to any such Association such information as may be likely to forward the objects of the Federation;
11. To undertake, collaborate with or assist others, measures for the promotion of family planning and welfare, health and hygiene and measures for pollution control and environmental improvement by way of education, propaganda, holding meetings, seminars etc. including setting up of centers in furtherance of the above.
12. To do all the above activities in such a manner that the benefits will be available to all persons irrespective of caste, creed, religion, sex, etc.