employment office

British  

noun

1. Former names: employment exchange.   labour exchange.  any of a number of government offices established to collect and supply to the unemployed information about job vacancies and to employers information about availability of prospective workers See also Jobcentre

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Example Sentences

Council hearings about their woes dealing with the employment office.

From Washington Post

Overwhelmed state employment offices have struggled to provide timely data to the federal government, and there have been several examples of outright errors making their way into the official data.

From New York Times

And here’s a protective trick for people who are still employed, just in case they lose their jobs: Set up a username and password at a state employment office website preemptively.

From Seattle Times

The local unemployment office becomes a true employment office.

From Los Angeles Times

The jobless figures don’t include 8 million people who received government-funded temporary unemployment in April and are gradually returning to work, the national employment office said.

From Washington Times