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Ministry of Labour and successors: Employment Policy, Registered Files (EM series...

Catalogue reference: LAB 8

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LAB 8

This series contains registered files concerning matters of general employment policy. The series also includes a complete set of ministry forms plus records of, and files relating to, various ministerial committees and other bodies concerned...

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Reference

LAB 8

Title
Ministry of Labour and successors: Employment Policy, Registered Files (EM series and other series)
Date

1907-2001

Description

This series contains registered files concerning matters of general employment policy. The series also includes a complete set of ministry forms plus records of, and files relating to, various ministerial committees and other bodies concerned with employment operations.

The main series of files represented is the EM series, which deals with general employment policy relating to recruitment, labour supply and placing. The series also contains registered files from several other file series relating to manpower and various aspects of employment, including papers concerning special areas, the building industry, port labour, registrations for employment in technical and professional and scientific fields, the employment of aliens (including prisoners of war and immigrants) and ex-servicemen, special wartime arrangements and legislation relating to equal pay and conditions of employment for women. Other file series represented in this series include AD (Appointments Department), ADR (resettlement in civilian employment), AR (recruitment and control of foreign labour), CR (wartime central register of professional and scientific personnel), MRS (manpower statistics), NM (nursing), PL (port labour), and TSR (technical and scientific register).

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Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

EM series; also AD, ADR, AR, CR, MRS, NM, PL, and TSR series

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
  • Department for Education and Employment, 1995-2001
  • Department of Employment, 1970-1988
  • Department of Employment and Productivity, 1968-1970
  • Employment Department, 1988-1995
  • Employment Department Group, 1988-1995
  • Ministry of Labour, 1916-1939
  • Ministry of Labour, 1959-1968
  • Ministry of Labour and National Service, 1939-1959
Physical description

4121 files and volumes

Access conditions

Open unless otherwise stated

Immediate source of acquisition

From 2001 Department for Work and Pensions

Subjects
Topics
Internment
Labour
Nursing
Pay and pensions
Construction industries
Sex and gender
Custodial history

Initial transfers into this series were made in 1966 from the Ministry of Labour.

Accruals

Series is accruing.

Unpublished finding aids
A key to the file series represented in this series may be found with the series list in the reading rooms at The National Archives, Kew.
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10123/

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