Catalogue description Department of Employment and predecessor and successor: Employment Services Division and Employment Services Agency: Registered Files (E and ES Series)

The Employment Services Division was set up in 1968 as part of the Department of Employment and Productivity and was responsible for the administration of employment exchange services, youth employment (by virtue of its incorporation of the Central Youth Employment Executive) and the employment of disabled persons. In 1971 the division was divided: two branches concerned with employment exchange services and the residue becoming a new division, Employment General Division. A year later, the new division was dissolved and its functions taken over by Employment Services Division I. At the same time, Employment Services Division II became responsible for maintaining the newly-created Professional and Executive Register. With the creation of the Manpower Services Commission in January 1974 (under the Employment and Training Act 1973), it became responsible for these functions under the auspices of its executive arm: the Employment Service Agency. In 1979 the agency changed its name back to the Employment Services Division.