The Overseas Employment Corporation was established year 1976, as a Public Sector recruitment agency, registered as a private limited company, under Companies Act, 1913 (now Companies Act, 2017, Section-42). It is a Public Sector company governed under Public Sector Companies (Corporate Governance) Rules, 2013 of Securities & Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP). It’s an Autonomous Body under administrative control of Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development.