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Need for the Regulation of Private Commercial Employment Agencies: 



At the present time there is no regulation or supervision of private 

 commercial employment agencies in Kentucky. 



Under the present system applicants for positions are charged a 

 registration fee before the commercial agencies will consider the case 

 of the applicant. And in cases where work is secured through the 

 efforts of the agency, he is charged from ten to fifty per cent of his 

 first month's wages for this service. 



Some of the employment agencies have been the source of many 

 complaints to this department by workers seeking employment, work- 

 ers who have been duped into paying a registration fee by false 

 promises of non-existent jobs. 



Some regulatory statute to include state supervision of the activi- 

 ties of commercial employment agencies and penalties for the viola- 

 tion thereof should be provided. 



Employment agencies should be licensed by the department and 

 should be forbidden to circulate any false information or to make false 

 statements or representations to any person seeking employment or 

 to any employer seeking employees. 



Provisions should also be made for the return of registration fees 

 charged applicant when private commercial agencies fail to find work 

 for the applicant after a specified period. 



