Employment Exchanges (Compulsory Notification of Vacancies) Act, 1959
No: 31 Dated: Sep, 02 1959
Employment Exchanges (Compulsory Notification of Vacancies) Act, 1959
(Act No. 31 of 1959)
An Act to provide for the compulsory notification of vacancies to employment exchanges.
Be it enacted by Parliament in the Tenth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
1. Short title, extent and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the Employment Exchanges (Compulsory Notification of Vacancies) Act, 1959.
(2) It extends to the whole of India.
(3) It shall come into force in a State on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint in this behalf for such State and different dates may be appointed for different States or for different areas of a State.
2. Definitions.—In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a)“appropriate Government” means—
(1) in relation to—
(a) any establishment of any railway, major port, mine or oil-field, or
(b) any establishment owned, controlled or managed by—
(i) the Central Government or a department of the Central Government,
(ii) a company in which not less than fifty-one per cent. of the share capital is held by the Central Government or partly by the Central Government and partly by one or more State Governments,
(iii) a corporation (including a co-operative society) established by or under a Central Act which is owned, controlled or managed by the Central Government, the Central Government;
(2) in relation to any other establishment, the Government of the State in which that other establishment is situate;
(b) “employee” means any person who is employed in an establishment to do any work for remuneration;
(c) “employer” means any person who employs one or more other persons to do any work in an establishment for remuneration and includes any person entrusted with the supervision and control of employees in such establishment;
(d) “employment exchange” means any office or place established and maintained by the Government for the collection and furnishing of information, either by the keeping of registers or otherwise, respecting—
(i) persons who seek to engage employees,
(ii) persons who seek employment, and (iii) vacancies to which persons seeking employment may be appointed;
(e) “establishment” means
(a) any office, or
(b) any place where any industry, trade, business or occupation is carried on;
(f) “establishment in public sector” means an establishment owned, controlled or managed by—
(1) the Government or a department of the Government;
(2) a Government company as defined in section 617 of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956);
(3) a corporation (including a co-operative society) established by or under a Central, Provincial or State Act, which is owned, controlled or managed by the Government;
(4) a local authority;
(g) “establishment in private sector” means an establishment which is not an establishment in public sector and where ordinarily twenty-five or more persons are employed to work for remuneration;
(h) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act;