The Public Employment Service (), is a government agency in

Lithuania Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, P ...

organized under the Ministry of Social Security and Labour and serving as the

public employment service A public employment service is a government's organization which matches employers to employees. History One of the oldest references to a public employment agency was in 1650, when Henry Robinson proposed an "Office of Addresses and Encounters" ...

. The agency should help facilitate meetings and bring together employers with job seekers, especially those who are long-term unemployed and have particular difficulties in finding work. In addition to this, the agency should work to increase

employment Employment is a relationship between two party (law), parties Regulation, regulating the provision of paid Labour (human activity), labour services. Usually based on a employment contract, contract, one party, the employer, which might be a cor ...

in the long term. This is primarily done by providing active support to companies in the recruitment process, facilitating meetings at the agency's premises and providing free searchable database. Until 2018, the agency was called the ''Labour Exchange'' (), but it was then reformed and renamed.

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{{authority control Public employment service Government agencies of Lithuania 1991 establishments in Lithuania

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