Vital Statistics

At present, there are 4 Vocational Guidance units in the state, one under the State Vocational Guidance Officer at the Directorate and the other 3 under Regional Employment Officers at Shimla, Mandi, and Dharamsala. In other Districts/Sub Office Employment Exchanges Vocational Guidance is given by the Officers/Officials Incharge.

Employment Market Information Programme

Under this Programme, information is regularly being collected from the Govt. and Pvt. Sector Establishments (only such Pvt. Sector Establishment which are employing 10 or more persons not engaged in agriculture).

Labour Wing - Activities

Maintenance of cordial Industrial Relations between the workers and management is a sine qua non for achieving optimum industrial production. The conciliation mechanism has proved very effective in stopping and sorting out Industrial Disputes. There are 10 Labour Officers at Distt. H.Q and 1 each at Rampur & Baddi who are functioning as Conciliation Officers. Elsewhere the District Employment Officers and Labour Inspectors (Where the number of workers is less than 200) are doing this work. Where these officers/officials are unable to achieve conciliation, the respective Labour Officers, Dy. Labour Commissioner, Joint Labour Commissioner or the Labour Commissioner-cum-Director of Employment intervenes in order to sort out the Industrial Dispute. In such Industrial Establishments where 100 or more workers are working. Workers Committees have been set up as per the provision of Section3 of Industrial Disputes Act, 1947.

Employment Wing - Activities

This wing mainly provides registration facility to the interested youth (who may be unemployed, self-employed, employed on Part-Time, casual, contract, adhoc, tenure basis or who are desirous of being registered for higher post). It also sponsors the eligible registrants against vacancies notified by Govt. and Private Sector Establishments in accordance with the sponsoring norm, seniority of registration and as per "Single Chance Rotation" norm.
The minimum age for registration is 14 years. A person has to get name registered in that Employment Exchange in whose jurisdiction he normally resides. Each person can get his name registered in upto 3 trades/occupations depending on his qualifications and work experience. The maximum age for Government jobs has been increased to 45 years, along with relaxation for SC, ST, Physically Handicapped & Ex. Service Men.

The District wise work done by Employment Exchanges w.e.f 1/4/2014 to 31/3/2015) is as under:

LIVE REGISTER AS PER EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION ( AS ON 31.3.2015)

LIVE REGISTER AS PER CASTE (as on 31.3.2015)

LIVE REGISTER BIFURCATION AS PER SEX

Industrial Relations & General Labour Situation

Maintenance of cordial Industrial Relations between the workers and management is a sine qua non for achieving optimum industrial production. The conciliation mechanism has proved very effective in stopping and sorting out Industrial Disputes. There are 10 Labour Officers at Distt. H.Q and 1 each at Rampur & Baddi who are functioning as Conciliation Officers. Elsewhere the District Employment Officers and Labour Inspectors (Where the number of workers is less than 200) are doing this work. Where these officers/officials are unable to achieve conciliation, the respective Labour Officers, Dy. Labour Commissioner, Joint Labour Commissioner or the Labour Commissioner-cum-Director of Employment intervenes in order to sort out the Industrial Dispute. In such Industrial Establishments where 100 or more workers are working. Workers Committees have been set up as per the provision of Section3 of Industrial Disputes Act, 1947.

Labour Court/ Industrial Tribunal

The Himachal Pradesh Government has setup two Labour Courts-cum-Industrial Tribunals under Industrial Disputes Act,1947 for adjudication of industrial disputes. One Court has been set up in District Shimla having jurisdiction of Shimla, Kinnaur, Solan Sirmour & Kaza of District Lahaul Spiti. Second Labour Court has been setup at Dharamsala having jurisdiction of District Kangra, Chamba, Una, Hamirpur, Bilaspur, Mandi, Kullu and Lahaul of Distirct Lahaul-Spiti. Presiding Officers of these Courts are officers of the rank of District & Session Judge.

The work done by the Labour Court w.e.f 1.4.2014-31.3.2015 is as under:

The inspections done by functionaries of the Labour Wing in the year 2014-2015 are detailed here under:

Registered Establishments

The details of registered establishments and number of workers as on 31.3.2015 is as under:

Vital Statistics