The core mandate involves registering and guiding jobseekers, including laid-off workers, toward employment opportunities through referrals, training, and career counselling. The division also conducts labour market surveys, canvasses employers for vacancies and training collaboration, disseminates employment-related information and statistics, monitors training programmes, regulates recruitment practices, and leads outreach and employability enhancement initiatives, including workshops and job fairs. The NED has under its purview 13 Employment Information Centres (EICs) scattered round the island for better reaching out of jobseekers.
About Employment Information Centre (EICS)
Employment Information Centres (EICs) are responsible for registering and placing jobseekers, processing vacancies via LMIS and Mauritiusjobs Platform, offering personalised career counselling and follow-up, and conducting labour market analysis and surveys. They facilitate employment through job canvassing, job dating, and workshops, manage redeployment of laid-off workers, carry out permit and recruitment inspections, and disseminate labour market information while actively participating in job fairs and outreach initiatives.
The 13 EICs are located in various regions of Mauritius including Triolet, Goodlands, Riviere du Rempart, Rose Belle, Mahebourg, Riviere des Anguilles, Quartier Militaire, Central Flacq, Port Louis, Curepipe, Vacoas, Quatre Bornes and Rose Hill. Additionally, one EIC operates in Rodrigues under the Rodrigues Regional Assembly.
Employment Outreach Initiatives
The National Employment Department (NED) connects jobseekers with employers and disseminates labour market information through the 13 Employment Information Centres (EICs) nationwide. NED also offers proximity service delivery through "Job Dating", thereby facilitating on-site interviews and selections. Furthermore, NED advertises vacancies on the Mauritiusjobs platform accessible on https://mauritiusjobs.govmu.org/ .
Additionally, through the television programme "Magazine de L’Emploi et des Métiers", the National Employment Department aims at disseminating vital information about job vacancies across diverse sectors of the economy, with a dual objective of raising awareness about the job market and highlighting the services offered by the Ministry through various initiatives. The programme is broadcasted from Mondays to Fridays at 19:20 on MBC TV, recap on Saturday, as well as aired on MBC radio. The programme provides for daily vacancy updates (public/private sectors), reportages, promo clips, communiqués, job/training fair coverage, vacancy posts on MBC website.
