Employment Information and Monitoring

A mid-sized logistics firm in Navi Mumbai has a vacancy for a warehouse supervisor. Must it tell any government office before it advertises or fills the post? And if it does report, must it then hire whoever the office sends? Chapter XIII of the Code on Social Security, 2020 is short, only two sections, but it answers these questions and explains how the State keeps track of jobs and job-seekers.

In two minutes

Chapter XIII (ss.139–140) lets the appropriate Government require employers to report vacancies to a notified career centre before filling them, without forcing the employer to hire through the centre, and excludes agriculture, domestic service, short jobs, small establishments and other listed cases.

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