About Department of Employment Haryana

The department administers the Employment Exchanges (Compulsory Notification of Vacancies) Act, 1959, which is a Central statute and the Rules framed thereunder. At present, 56 Employment Exchanges are functioning in the State, out of which there is 1 State Employment Exchange Haryana at Panchkula, 4 Divisional Employment Exchanges, 17 District Employment Exchanges, 31 Sub Divisional Employment Exchanges and 3 University Employment Information and Guidance Bureaux. 2 Cells are also functioning  at State Employment Exchange Panchkula,1 Scheduled Caste (SC) Cell &1 Physically Handicapped (PH) Cell.

The Employment Exchanges perform mainly three types of functions viz. Registration of applicants and their placement, providing vocational guidance to job seekers and collect employment market information data from establishments in the organized sector. The Employment Exchanges are rendering free services to employers as well as to job seekers.

REGISTRATION OF JOB SEEKERS

Any person who is a job seeker can get his/ her name registered in the Employment Exchanges under whose jurisdiction he/ she usually resides.[Read More]

SUBMISSION OF NAMES OF APPLICANTS

As per the vacancies notified by various employers, the Employment Exchange submits the list of job seekers who match the requirements of the employer.[Read More]
VOCATIONAL/ CAREER GUIDANCE

Employment Exchanges also provide Vocational Guidance /Career Information to the applicants. The department has set up a network of 22 vocational guidance units at District/Town Employment Exchanges and 3 in Universities to provide Educational & Vocational Guidance to youths. These units disseminate occupational and other relevant information to the applicants through Group Guidance, Career Talks, Career Weeks, Individual Information and Individual Counseling. Employment Information Centre have been set up in 233 Villages throughout Haryana till date where latest information about training facilities and job opportunities are regularly display for the benefit of unemployed youth.[Read More]

UNEMPLOYMENT ALLOWANCE SCHEME

Initially the Unemployment Allowance Scheme was launched on 1st November, 1988 by the then

Hon'ble Chief Minister. The scheme benefited the applicants who were Matric & above. It has three slabs i.e. Matric @ ` 50/-, 10+2 @ ` 75/- and those who were graduate and above were paid @ 100/- per month.

The Scheme was amended in November 2004. The allowance for matriculate and above was raised to ` 100/- per month, for 10+2 @ ` 200/- and for graduate was raised to ` 300/-.

This scheme continued till October 2005 until it was replaced by the existing scheme in November, 2005, under the present scheme 10+2 or above applicants were paid @ ` 300/- per month and graduates and above were paid @ ` 500/- per month.

The rates of unemployment allowance were again revised w.e.f. 1-4-2009; as under:

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SELF EMPLOYMENT

To promote self-employment, the employment officers are guiding the applicants regarding self employment schemes being operated by various Government departments/Boards/Corporations of Haryana State and the applicants who are so willing for self employment are registered separately and their names are being sponsored to various agencies for the grant of loan.

OVERSEAS EMPLOYMENT BUREAU

In order to cater to the growing demands for skilled and unskilled labour, technicians, professionals, engineers, executives and doctors in foreign countries especially in the middle-east, the Government is shortly setting up an Overseas Placement Bureau in the Department of Employment.[Read More]

PRIVATE PLACEMENT SERVICES

With the shrinking of job avenues in the Government department and the department having no significant role in the matter of Government recruitment, private placement services are proposed to be made available in four major industrial town i.e. Gurgaon, Faridabad, Sonepat and Yamuna Nagar on the pattern of Private Placement Agencies. The first such cell has been set up at Gurgaon.[Read More]