PANAJI
Minister for Labour and Employment on Monday introduced ‘The Employment Exchanges (Compulsory Notification Of Vacancies) (Goa Amendment) Bill, 2025’ proposing to increase the penalty from Rs 500 to up to Rs 30,000 to deter private companies from issuing job advertisements outside Goa.
The Bill also proposes to seek data from private companies about jobs likely to be created in the next six months and details of employees recruited.
“In order to give more opportunities to the local youths by sponsoring the names against the notified vacancies by different establishments and to discourage the instances of conducting interviews outside the State without notifying the vacancies to the local employment exchange, it is considered necessary to carry out the amendments to certain provisions of the Act, to make the Act more stringent,” the Bill stated.
According to the Bill, the companies with up to 50 employees, would be fined Rs 5000 if found advertising outside Goa in the first instance, Rs 10,000 and Rs 15,000 each on the second and third violation.
The companies having 51 to 100 workforce would attract penalties of Rs 10,000 for the first offence, Rs 15,000 for the second and Rs 20,000 for the third offence.
Companies with employees up to 400 would be liable for a penalty of Rs 15,000 for the first violation, Rs 20,000 for the second and Rs 25,000 for the third. Larger firms with over 400 employees will face steeper fines, ranging from Rs 20,000 for the first violation to Rs 30,000 for repeat offences.
The Bill proposes to carry out an amendment to subsection (2} of section 5 of the Act to enable the State Government to seek additional information from Employers in respect of job fairs, jobs likely to be created in the next six months, details of employees recruited against notified vacancies, the status of candidates sponsored by employment exchange including information of candidates not selected from sponsored list etc.
