Bill 12 (Legislature 4, Session 2)

L4 S2 10154

Alberta — Bills

BILL No. 12 of 1919.

An Act to Establish the Alberta Government Employment Bureau. (Assented to ' 1919.) HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. This Act shall be cited as "The Alberta Government Employment Bureau, Act." 2..

In this Act- ( a) "Bureau" shall mean the Alberta Government Employment Bureau; (b) "Director" shall mean Director of the Alberta Government Employment Bureau; (c) "Employment office" shall mean and include the business of procuring workmen, artificers, labourers, domestic servants and other persons for the per formance of skilled or unskilled labour, and the business of procuring employment for such classes of persons or any of them. 3. There is hereby constituted a branch of the Public Service of the province to be known as ''The Alberta Govern ment Employment Bureau." 4.

The branch shall be attached to such one of the present departments of the Public Service as may be designated by the Lieutenant Governor in Council, and shall be under the direction and control of the Minister in charge of that department. 5. The Lieutenant Governor in Council may appoint a director and such other employees as may be deemed advisable. 6. In respect to matters assigned to the bureau the director shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as may be assigned to him by the Lieutenant Governor in Council or by the Minister. 2 7.

The Lieutenant Governor in Council may appoint a1. advisory council, representative of employers and employees, whose duty it shall be to advise the Minister in directing the policy of the bureau. 8.

The Lieutenant Governor in Council may divide the province into such employment districts as may be deemed advisable; and establish an employment office in each and appoint officials and staff to manage same, and may appoint an advisory committee, representative of employees and employers, to assist the official in charge in the dis charge of his duties and in co-operating with the advisory council in the work of applying the national employment policy to the industries of the province. 9. It shall be the duty of the bureau to- (

a) Establish a clearing house· or clearing houses . to provide faciliti~s for finding employment and for the distribution of male and female labour throughout and without the province; (

b) Co-operate with the Dominion authorities for the inter-provincial distribution of labour, and to enter into any arrangement with them for the purpose of carrying out any of the terms of The Employment Offices Co-ordination Act. (

c) Put employers who want work-people and work people who want employment within Alberta into communication with one another free of charge; (

d) Collect such statistical and other information respecting trades and industries in the province as may be deemed necessary or expedient from time to time; (

e) Inquire and report as to the establishment of new industries in Alberta in any case where, by reason of the production of raw material for such industries in the. province or of the immigration of persons skilled in such industries or other circumstances, it appears that such industries can profitably be carried on. 10. The Lieutenant Governor in Council may from time to time make such regulations and prescribe such forms as may be deemed necessary for the proper carrying into effect of the provisions of this Act, and such regulations shall have the same force and effect as if they were included in this Act. No. 12. SECOND SESSION FOURTH LEGISLATURE GEORGE V BILL

An Act to Establish the Alberta Government Employment Bureau. Received and read the First time ................. . Second time ............... . Third time ................ . HoN. MR. STEWART. EDMONTON: J. w. JEFFERY, KING'!< PRINTI!:R A. D. llllll. Title: 1919 (4th, 2nd) Bill 12,

An Act to Establish the Alberta Government Employment Bureau

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Collection	Alberta — Bills
Citation	L4 S2 10154
Type	bill
Volume / chapter	L4 S2 10154
Language	en
Format	json
Source	PROVINCIAL
Identifier	9eebb85870bf22834d0ecbf771f951b0b4bd6edd

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