Catalogue description Ministry of Labour and successors: Employment Policy, Registered Files (EM series and other series)

This series contains registered files concerning matters of general employment policy. The series also includes a complete set of ministry forms plus records of, and files relating to, various ministerial committees and other bodies concerned with employment operations.

The main series of files represented is the EM series, which deals with general employment policy relating to recruitment, labour supply and placing. The series also contains registered files from several other file series relating to manpower and various aspects of employment, including papers concerning special areas, the building industry, port labour, registrations for employment in technical and professional and scientific fields, the employment of aliens (including prisoners of war and immigrants) and ex-servicemen, special wartime arrangements and legislation relating to equal pay and conditions of employment for women. Other file series represented in this series include AD (Appointments Department), ADR (resettlement in civilian employment), AR (recruitment and control of foreign labour), CR (wartime central register of professional and scientific personnel), MRS (manpower statistics), NM (nursing), PL (port labour), and TSR (technical and scientific register).

See also Division within LAB

Department for Education and Employment, 1995-2001

Department of Employment, 1970-1988

Department of Employment and Productivity, 1968-1970

Employment Department, 1988-1995

Employment Department Group, 1988-1995

Ministry of Labour, 1916-1939

Ministry of Labour, 1959-1968

Ministry of Labour and National Service, 1939-1959

From 2001 Department for Work and Pensions

A key to the file series represented in this series may be found with the series list in the reading rooms at The National Archives, Kew.