Bill renames Employment Exchanges to Guidance Centres, lowers vacancy-notification threshold to 10…

This Bill amends the 1959 Act to rename 'Employment Exchanges' as 'Employment Guidance and Promotion Centres' to emphasize career counseling and guidance. It also updates definitions, expands the scope of covered establishments to those with ten or more employees, and includes the plantation sector.

Employers in private sector establishments employing ten or more persons, employers in the plantation sector (excluding those owned and managed by individuals), and companies or firms.

• Renames 'Employment Exchanges' to 'Employment Guidance and Promotion Centres' throughout the Act.
• Reduces the threshold for private sector establishments required to notify vacancies from 25 to 10 employees.
• Defines 'plantation' to include commercial crops of perennial nature, bringing this sector under the Act's purview.
• Exempts staff of State Legislatures from the Act's requirements, similar to Parliament staff.
• Requires employers to furnish information on selection results within 30 days of selection.
• Inserts new Section 5A allowing the Government to require establishments with fewer than 25 employees to furnish vacancy returns.
• Specifies penalties for failing to notify vacancies or furnish returns, including fines up to 10,000 rupees and/or imprisonment up to one month.
• Holds companies and their responsible officers liable for offences committed by the company.

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