Employment agencies

Employment agencies are understood as those public or private entities, for-profit or non-profit, which, in coordination and, where appropriate, collaboration with the corresponding public employment service, carry out labor intermediation activities whose purpose is to provide workers a suitable job according to their characteristics and provide employers with the workers most appropriate to their requirements and needs.

To this end, the placement agencies will assess the profiles, aptitudes, knowledge and professional qualifications of the workers who require their services to search for employment and the requirements and characteristics of the jobs offered.

These placement agencies may also carry out actions related to the search for employment, such as professional orientation and information, and with the selection of personnel.

Outplacement companies are placement agencies specialized in the activity aimed at the outplacement of workers who are surplus in business restructuring processes, when it has been established or agreed with the workers or their representatives in the corresponding social plans or programs. relocation, and will be subject to the legal and regulatory regime established in general for placement agencies.

Employment agencies must comply with the obligations established in Royal Legislative Decree 3/2015, of October 23, approving the consolidated text of the Employment Law. In their relationship both with workers and with client companies, temporary work companies must expressly inform, and in each case, whether their performance is in the capacity of temporary work company or placement agency.

Natural or legal persons, including temporary employment agencies, who wish to act as placement agencies must present prior character a responsible statement before the General Directorate of the Public Employment Service of the Community of Madrid in the event that it intends to carry out its activity from work centers established in the Community of Madrid.

In the event that the agency intends to carry out its activity from work centers established in two or more autonomous communities, the declaration of responsibility can be submitted to the public employment service of any of the autonomous communities where said centers are established.

Employment agencies that operate exclusively by telematic means, can present it in the autonomous community they consider.

The employment agencies may start their activity from the day of the presentation of the responsible statement, without prejudice to the powers of verification, control and inspection that the competent administrations have attributed.

The inaccuracy or falsity in any information, statement or document, of an essential nature, that had been accompanied or incorporated into the responsible declaration, will determine the impossibility of continuing with the activity as a placement agency, without prejudice to criminal, civil or administrative responsibilities. to which there will be place.

The Public Employment Service will communicate the placement agency number.