Public employment service
A public employment service is a government's organization which matches employers to employees.
History
One of the oldest references to a public employment agency was in 1650, when Henry Robinson proposed an "Office of Addresses and Encounters" that would link employers to workers.[1] The English Parliament rejected the proposal, but he himself opened such a business, although it was short-lived.[2]
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, every developed country has created a public employment agency as a way to combat unemployment and help people find work. In 1988, public employment services from six countries founded the World Association of Public Employment Services. As of 2016, 85 PES from all over the world have joined the association.[3]
Public employment service by country
United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom the first agency began in London, through the Labour Bureau (London) Act 1902, and subsequently went nationwide, a movement prompted by the Liberal government through the Labour Exchanges Act 1909. The present public provider of job search help is called Jobcentre Plus.
United States
In the United States, a federal programme of employment services was rolled out in the New Deal. The initial legislation was called the Wagner-Peyser Act of 1933. More recently, job services happen through one-stop centers established by the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, reformed by the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2013.
Other countries
- Pôle emploi, France's Public employment service
- Hello Work (Japanese government's Employment Service Center)
- PESO (Public Employment Service agency of the Philippines)
- Public Employment Service (Lithuania)
- AMS, Austria (Arbeitsmarktservice)
- Bundesagentur für Arbeit, (Federal employment agency of Germany)
- PSZ, Poland (Publiczne Służby Zatrudnienia)
- Hellenic Manpower Employment Organization, Greece (Οργανισμός Απασχολήσεως Εργατικού Δυναμικού (ΟΑΕΔ))
See also
- Employment agency
- UK agency worker law
Notes
- ^ Martínez, Tomas (December 1976). The human marketplace: an examination of private employment agencies. Transaction Publishers. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-87855-094-4. Retrieved 28 September 2011.
- ^ The Nineteenth century and after. Leonard Scott Pub. Co. 1907. p. 795.
- ^ World Association of Public Employment Services:About Us, retrieved on 18 February 2017.
References
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- DE Balducchi, RW Eberts, CJ O'Leary (eds), Labour Exchange Policy in the United States (W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research 2004)
- P Craig, M Freedland, C Jacqueson and N Kountouris, Public Employment Services and European Law (2007)
- International Labour Office, The role of private employment agencies in the functioning of labour markets (Report VI 1994) International Labour Conference 81st Session
- R Kellogg, The United States Employment Service (University of Chicago Press 1933)
- T Martinez, The Human Marketplace: An Examination of Private Employment Agencies (Transaction 1976)
- JB Seymour, The British Employment Exchange (PS King & Son 1928)
External links
- Official Website of the World Association of Public Employment Services
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- Application
- Background check
- Business networking
- Cover letter
- Curriculum vitae
- Drug testing
- Employment contract
- Employment counsellor
- Executive search
- Induction programme
- Job fair
- Job fraud
- Job hunting
- Job interview
- Letter of recommendation
- Onboarding
- Overqualification
- Person–environment fit
- Personality–job fit theory
- Personality hire
- Probation
- Recruitment
- Résumé
- Simultaneous recruiting of new graduates
- Underemployment
- Work-at-home scheme
- Apprenticeship
- Artisan
- Avocation
- Career assessment
- Career counseling
- Career development
- Coaching
- Creative class
- Education
- Continuing education
- E-learning
- Employability
- Further education
- Graduate school
- Induction training
- Knowledge worker
- Licensure
- Lifelong learning
- Overspecialization
- Practice-based professional learning
- Professional association
- Professional certification
- Professional development
- Professional school
- Reflective practice
- Retraining
- Vocational education
- Vocational school
- Vocational university
- Mentorship
- Occupational Outlook Handbook
- Practice firm
- Profession
- Operator
- Professional
- Tradesman
- Vocation
- Crunch
- Epilepsy and employment
- Human factors and ergonomics
- Karoshi
- List of countries by rate of fatal workplace accidents
- Occupational burnout
- Occupational disease
- Occupational exposure limit
- Occupational health psychology
- Occupational injury
- Occupational noise
- Occupational stress
- Personal protective equipment
- Repetitive strain injury
- Right to sit
- Sick building syndrome
- Work accident
- Workers' compensation
- Workers' right to access the toilet
- Workplace health promotion
- Workplace phobia
- Workplace wellness
- At-will employment
- Dismissal
- Employee offboarding
- Exit interview
- Layoff
- Notice period
- Pink slip
- Resignation
- Restructuring
- Retirement
- Severance package
- Turnover
- Barriers to entry
- Discouraged worker
- Economic depression
- Frictional unemployment
- Full employment
- Graduate unemployment
- Involuntary unemployment
- Jobless recovery
- Phillips curve
- Recession
- Reserve army of labour
- Structural unemployment
- Technological unemployment
- Types of unemployment
- Unemployment benefits
- Unemployment Convention, 1919
- Unemployment extension
- List of countries by unemployment rate
- Wage curve
- Youth unemployment
- Bullshit job
- Busy work
- Credentialism and educational inflation
- Emotional labor
- Evil corporation
- Going postal
- Kiss up kick down
- Labor rights
- Make-work job
- Narcissism in the workplace
- Post-work society
- Presenteeism
- Psychopathy in the workplace
- Sunday scaries
- Slow movement (culture)
- Toxic leader
- Toxic workplace
- Workhouse
See also templates
- Aspects of corporations
- Aspects of jobs
- Aspects of occupations
- Aspects of organizations
- Aspects of workplaces
- Corporate titles
- Critique of work
- Organized labor
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