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Numerous institutions dealing with providing assistance for job seekers could be distinguished
in practice. They differ with regard to goals being accomplished by them and ways of their
organization. Some of them have a character of voluntary associations, others are organs of
the state administration, and still others are typical commercial institutions. The analysis in
this article is focused on distict employment agencies. This does not mean that only they
should act as middlemen between an employer and an employee, and this solve the main
problems of the labour market. At the time of growing disproportions between labour demand
and supply there is also a demand for other institutions, which could satisfy needs of employers
and jobless persons by means of different methods and measures, and which simultaneously
could assist general employment agencies. In our opinion, district employment agencies are
today the main institution able to provide assistance for the unemployed. That ensues directly
from the goal of their activity which is ensuring appropriate jobs for people and employees
for work establishments and from functions realized by them, i.e. informative, advisory,
correctional, interventional, and welfare functions. The last of them predominantes in all
employment agencies and, consequently, it does not allow them to conduct active forms ol
job placements. Through accomplishing the welfare function an employment agency becomes
an institutions of protective type.
The article discusses also solutions adopted in the Western countries in the field of job
placement. The Polish employment agencies could benefit from adopting some solutions of
these countries. However, adopting such solutions there should be remembered different
organizational, technical and personnel conditions of Polish employment agencies, which pose
a barrier to the remodelling of such institutions in Poland.
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