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Employment Agencies Program

The Employment Agency Program protects the rights of workers being placed by employment agencies, and ensures those agencies use fair, ethical, and legal business practices.

We regulate modeling agencies, home care placement agencies, nanny and/or babysitter, placement agencies, temporary staffing and labor firms, permanent placement employment firms.

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