Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) MISSION

To promote gainful employment opportunities, develop human resources, protect workers and promote their welfare, and maintain industrial peace.

VISION
Every Filipino worker attains full, decent and productive employment.

HISTORY Established as a small bureau in 1908 under the Department of Commerce and Police; On December 8, 1993, the Bureau of Labor was established as a Department by the virtue of R.A. 4121.

12 GENERAL FUNCTIONS
Enforce social and labor legislation to protect the working class and regulate the relations between the worker and his employers; Formulate and recommend policies, plans and programs for manpower development, training, allocation, and utilization; Recommend legislation to enhance the material, social and intellectual improvement of the nations labor force; Protect and promote the interest of every citizen desiring for to work locally or overseas by securing for him the most equitable terms and conditions of employment, and by providing social and welfare services; Regulate the employment of aliens, including the enforcement of a registration or work permit system for such aliens, as provided for by law; Formulate general guidelines concerning wage income policy; Recommend necessary adjustment in wage structures with the view to developing a wage system that is consistent with national economic and social development plans; Provide for safe, decent, humane and improved working conditions and environment for all workers, particularly women and young workers; Maintain a harmonious, equitable and stable labor relations system that is supportive of the national economic policies and programs; Uphold the right of the workers and employers to organize and promote free collective bargaining as the foundation of the labor relations systems; Provide and ensure the fair and expeditious settlement and disposition of labor and industrial disputes through collective bargaining, grievance machinery, conciliation,

mediation, voluntary arbitration, compulsory arbitration as may be provided by law, and other modes that may be voluntarily agreed upon by the parties concerned; and Perform such other function as may be provided by law.

ATTACHED AGENCIES and BUREAUS UNDER DOLE

* INSTITUTE FOR LABOR STUDIES (ILS) *NATIONAL MARITIME POLYTECHNIC (NMP) *MARITIME TRAINING COUNCIL (MTC) *OVERSEAS WORKER WELFARE ADMINISTRATION (OWWA) *PHILIPPINE OVERSEAS EMPLOYMENT ADMINISTRATION (POEA) *NATIONAL CONCILIATION AND MEDIATION BOARD (NCMB) **NATIONAL LABOR RELATION COMMISSION (NLRC) **NATIONAL WAGES AND PRODUCTIVITY COMMISSION (NWPC) ***EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION COMMISSION (ECC) ***OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH CENTER (OSHC) *****PROFESSIONAL REGULATION COMMISSION (PRC) ******TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (TESDA) BUREAU OF LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS (BLES) BUREAU OF LABOR RELATIONS (BLR) BUREAU OF LOCAL EMPLOYMENT (BLE) BUREAU OF RURAL WORKER (BRW) BUREAU OF WOMEN AND YOUNG WORKERS (BWYW) BUREAU OF WORKING CONDITIIONS (BWC)

Reporters:
Harun, Michelle D.

Lagbas, Ma. Cris G. Lopez, Ervin L. Tirambulo, Eugenia L.