Definition of employment agency
: an agency whose business is to find jobs for people seeking them or to find people to fill jobs that are open
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He found work as a mechanic through an employment agency.
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For a number of years she was employed at Olde Windsor Bancorp in Windsor then at Birken Manufacturing in Bloomfield and finally for a temporary employment agency that provided various assignments at manufacturing facilities in the area.
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There also was reimbursement for eligible capital costs, state sales tax abatement, a non-educational property tax abatement and promise that the state employment agency will build and operate a training center.
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In Brooklyn, Mary DiGangi, the human resources director at the Menorah Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Care, recently asked local employment agencies to find 20 to 25 new nursing assistants and practical nurses.
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The only prop in this scene, which was held in an employment agency, was a box filled with sawdust, the purpose of which was obvious.
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But the Age Discrimination in Employment Act assigns liability only to employers or employment agencies, like recruiters and advertising firms.
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But the Age Discrimination in Employment Act assigns liability only to employers or employment agencies, like recruiters and advertising firms.
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But the Age Discrimination in Employment Act assigns liability only to employers or employment agencies, like recruiters and advertising firms.
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Two restaurants and an employment agency charged with mistreating and underpaying immigrant workers who are in the country without authorization were ordered to pay back wages and penalties in a consent decree issued this week in federal court.
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First Known Use of employment agency
1888
EMPLOYMENT AGENCY Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of employment agency for English Language Learners
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: a company whose business is to find jobs for people
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