Public employment agency
A public employment service is a government service that brings together job vacancies and available workers.
history
One of the earliest mentions of a public employment service is in 1650 when Henry Robinson proposed to the British Parliament that an "Office of Addresses and Encounters" be established. The British Parliament rejected the proposal, however, and Robinson founded a private employment agency, which did not last long.
Since the beginning of the 20th century, every developed country has created a public employment service to fight unemployment and help people find work. In 1988, public employment agencies from six countries founded the World Association of Public Employment Services. In 2016, 85 state employment agencies from all regions of the world belonged to the association.
In 2014 the network of European Public Employment Services (PES network) was constituted as an EU institution with the chairmanship of the EU Commission . In June 2019, Johannes Kopf was elected as the successor to Fons Leroy (Belgium, VDAB) as chairman of the network.
Public employment agency by country
Germany
In Germany, the Reichsanstalt für Arbeitsvermittlung (Reichsanstalt für Arbeitsvermittlung) had been the central actor in public employment services since 1927 . Today the employment agencies and job centers take on this task.
United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom, the first service was established in London by the provisions of the Labor Bureau Act 1902 and then expanded to the whole country. This development was initiated by the Labor Exchanges Act 1909 of the liberal government. Today's state employment agency is operated by the facilities of Jobcentre Plus.
United States
In the United States, a federal job placement program was introduced as part of the New Deal . The original legislative initiative for this was the Wagner-Peyser Act of 1933. Today, public employment services are created through contact points established under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 and the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2013.
Other countries
- Pôle Emploi, public employment service in France
- Hello Work, Japan's recruitment service
- PESO, Public Employment Service in the Philippines
- Lithuanian Employment Exchange at the Ministry of Social Protection and Labor , Lithuanian Public Employment Service
- Employment Service , Austria
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tomas Martínez: The human marketplace: an examination of private employment agencies . Transaction Publishers, December 1976, ISBN 978-0-87855-094-4 , p. 13 (accessed September 28, 2011).
- ^ The Nineteenth century and after . Leonard Scott Pub. Co., 1907, p. 795.
- ↑ World Association of Public Employment Services: About Us , accessed February 18, 2017.
- ↑ AMS board member head becomes chairman of the EU network of employment agencies . OTS notification dated June 6, 2019, accessed June 6, 2019.
- ↑ Tim Obermeier and Frank Oschmiansky: Public and private job placement: historical development . Bpb of August 31, 2014.
- ↑ Public and private employment agencies . BMAS of September 7, 2017.