The term "employment placement agency" as used in this Act means a public employment security office (including the head of a school that offers some of the services performed by a public employment security office pursuant to the provisions of the Employment Security Act (Act No. 141 of 1947)), a local government that offers free employment placement services pursuant to the provisions of the Employment Security Act, or any other person that offers employment placement services, having obtained a license or filed a notification pursuant to the provisions of the same Act.