Department of Labor and Employment

DOLE Services
Our Services are responsible for providing advice and support services relating to their respective areas of concern,
so as to ensure Departments efficient, effective and economical operations.
Administrative
Join us in providing the Department with efficient, effective and economical services relating to building administration and
maintenance, records management, supplies, equipment, collections, disbursements, security and custodial work.
Financial and Management
Make use of your organization and process skills in managing of our Departments budgetary, financial and management
improvement matters.
Human Resource Development
Put into use your interpersonal skills and assist us in attracting, developing, and retaining the best people in DOLE. Our
HRDS is responsible for administering personnel programs, selection and placement, career and employee development,
performance evaluation, employee relations and welfare, as well as providing program and corresponding projects that shall
make available training, education and development opportunities needed to upgrade the levels of competence and
productivity.
Internal Audit
Use your analytical and assessment skills in achieving effective and efficient fiscal administration through the development
and implementation of internal control system, as well as being on guard on the prevention and detection of fraud or
dishonesty in the Department through reviewing of cases involving misuse of agency property and checking of transactions
with outside parties.
Labor Communications
Have a knack for writing news? Your writing, love for details, and interpersonal skills will help us disseminate the latest
news and information on labor and employment. Get to monitor and analyze tri-media issues affecting the Department and
initiate appropriate and timely action and responses.
Legal
Take the challenge of providing legal advice, service and assistance to the Department and its employees through
preparation of informative and clarificatory opinions on labor laws, rules and regulations.
Planning
Employ your management and planning skills by providing support to the Departments corporate planning, monitoring, and
evaluation of plans necessary for the achievement of our vision and mission. Join us, too, in developing and maintaining our
management information system.

DOLE Bureaus
Our Bureaus primarily perform policy and program development and advisory functions for the Department in the
administration and enforcement of laws along their respective areas of specialization.
International Labor Affairs Bureau
Join us in developing policies, plans, programs, projects, procedures, and standards relative to labor and employment
concerns abroad. Lend a hand in monitoring the operations of our Philippine Overseas Labor Offices (POLOs).
Bureau of Labor and Employment Statistics
Love reading in-between the numbers? Use your analytical skills and take part in formulation, development, and
implementation of plans and programs on the labor statistical system, thus providing the government with timely, accurate
and reliable data on labor and employment.
Bureau of Workers with Special Concerns
Help us offer assistance relative to development and protection of informal and rural workers, including sugar workers,
women workers, young workers, working children, and elderly workers.
Bureau of Working Conditions
Curious about how good working conditions affect workers? Let your research skills be employed in aid of standards, policy
programs, and devices development on labor standards, its administration, and enforcement.
Bureau of Labor Relations
Labor union permits and collective bargaining agreements; just two of the labor-relation registrations that we handle. Set
policies, standards, and procedures in the registration and supervision of legitimate labor union activities, as well as examine
records of labor organizations to determine compliance with relevant laws.
 Bureau of Local Employment
Assist us in making sure that the best Filipino employees are hired by the best companies here and abroad. Your
organizational and interpersonal skills, as well as research skills, will be put into action through the continuous development
and implementation of a National Employment Plan in coordination with social partners. Moreover, help us maintain the
three important employment portals: the Career Guide, Phil-Job.net (the official job hunt site of the Philippine Government),
and Public Employment Service Offices (PESOs).

DOLE Regional Offices

What our Bureaus develop and enforce, our Regional Offices implement. The men and women in our Regional
Offices continue to provide economical, efficient, and effective services to the people in coordination with local
government units. Our offices are located strategically in the Philippine archipelago for easy access to labor and
employment services.

Visit the Quick Links in our home page to check the career opportunities offered by our regional offices.

DOLE Attached Agencies

DOLEs 12 attached agencies assist in promoting gainful employment opportunities, advancement of workers
welfare, and maintain industrial peace. Our attached agencies initiate policies, programs, researches, conduct
effective conciliation and mediation and speedy labor or industrial settlements, as well as administer certifications that
benefit employees and employers, helping companies put safe, healthy, and conducive work places.

Visit the Quick Links (clickable; linked to page) in our home page to check the career opportunities offered by our
attached agencies.

Department of Labor and Employment

Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz

Undersecretaries Danilo P. Cruz (Undersecretary)

Hans Leo J. Cacdac (Undersecretary for
Labor Relations)
Lourdes M. Trasmonte (Undersecretary)
Rebecca Chato (Acting Undersecretary)

Address
DOLE Building - Muralla St. cor. Gen.
 Luna St., Intramuros 1002 Manila

Contact Numbers (632) 527 8000

Website Department of Labor and Employment

The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is the primary government agency mandated to promote
gainful employment opportunities, develop human resources, protect workers and promote their welfare, and
maintain industrial peace.

Originally, DOLE started as a small bureau in 1908. It became a department on December 8, 1933 with the
passage of Act 4121.

DOLE stands as the national government agency mandated to formulate policies, implement programs and
services, and serve as the policy-coordinating arm of the Executive Branch in the field of labor and
employment. The organization and functions of DOLE are in accordance with the provisions of Executive Order
No. 126, as amended, the Labor Code of the Philippines, and other relevant and pertinent legislations.

DOLE has exclusive authority in the administration and enforcement of labor and employment laws and such
other laws as specifically assigned to it or to the Secretary of Labor and Employment.

In 2009, the Department of Labor and Employment celebrated its 75th anniversary with the 7-leg DOLE
Diamond Lecture Series and JOBSolutely DOLE job fair. They followed the theme 'Balik-Tanaw, Bagong
Pananaw.'

Contents
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1 Functions and Responsibilities / Key Projects and Activities

o 1.1 Vision, Mandate and Strategies

1.1.1 Support for Employment Generation

1.1.2 Employment Facilitation

1.1.3 Employment Preservation

o 1.2 Offices

1.2.1 Office of the Secretary

1.2.2 Office of the Undersecretaries

1.2.3 Office of the Assistant Secretaries

 o 1.3 Attached Agencies

2 References

3 Citation

Functions and Responsibilities / Key Projects and Activities

Vision, Mandate and Strategies
Consistent with the national development plan, its vision is the attainment of full, decent and productive
employment for every Filipino worker. It is mandated to promote gainful employment opportunities, develop
human resources, protect workers and promote their welfare and maintain industrial peace. To contribute to the
attainment of the national employment goals, it adopts the following strategies:
Support for Employment Generation

While DOLE recognizes that the private sector is the primary engine of economic growth and that other
government agencies that promote development through investments and infrastructure are the more
significant employment generators, DOLE still contributes in this area by providing bridging or transition
opportunities, especially to the vulnerable sectors, to help them graduate into more productive, remunerative,
secured or more formal employment or livelihood.

Major Programs:

1. Research and Policy Advocacy for Employment Generation

2. Capacity Building for Specific Sectors

3. Promotion of Rural and Emergency Employment

The agencies that contribute to this strategy are the:

Institute for Labor Studies (ILS),

Bureau of Local Employment (BLE),

Bureau of Rural Workers (BRW), and

Workers Amelioration and Welfare Divisions (WAWD) of our regional offices

Key Projects/Activities:

Employment Policy Review, Development and Advocacy (ILS, Bureau)

Employment Planning (BLE, ROs)

Kasanayan at Hanapbuhay (KasH) (BLE, TESDA, ROs)

Special Program for Employment of Students (SPES) (BLE, ROs)

Work Appreciation Program (BLE, ROs)

 Tulong Alalay sa Taong May Kapansanan (BLE, ROs)

Emergency Employment for OSY/OWY in Metro Manila (BLE, NCR)

Poverty-Free Zones (Aksyon ng Sambayanan Laban sa Kahirapan) (BRW, ROs)

Promotion of Rural Employment Through Self-Employment and Entrepreneurship Development

(PRESEED) (BRW, ROs)

Self-Reliant Organizations for CARP (BRW, ROs)

Prevention of Job Loss and Assistance to Displaced Workers (ROs)

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Employment Facilitation

Under this strategy, DOLE provides employment facilitation and regulation services for local and overseas
employment. They also harness modern technology to make more efficient the matching of job vacancies to
skills.

Major Programs:

1. Local Employment Facilitation Program

2. Overseas Employment Facilitation Program

The operating agencies of this strategy are the:

Bureau of Local Employment (BLE),

Employment Promotion Divisions (EPD) of the DOLEs Regional Offices, and

Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA)

Key Projects/Activities:

Public Employment Service Office (PESO) (BLE, ROs, LGUs, SUCs)

Labor Market Information System (LMIS)-Phil-JOBNET (BLE, ROs, PESOs)

Overseas Employment (POEA)

Employment Preservation

DOLE supports the promotion of industrial peace through education, expeditious and fair resolution of labor
disputes, enhancement of labor-management cooperation and promotion of tripartism in policy and decision
making in order to preserve jobs and enhance the quality of employment in the country.

Major Programs:

1. Dispute Prevention and Settlement Program

2. Workers Organization, Tripartism and Empowerment Program

The operating agencies for this strategy are the:

Bureau of Labor Relations (BLR),

Tripartite Industrial Peace Council Secretariat,

Labor Relations Divisions (LRD) and the Med-Arbitration Units of the Regional Offices,

Legal Service (LS),

National Conciliation and Mediation Board (NCMB), and

National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) and their regional units.

Key Projects/Activities:

Administrative Intervention for Dispute Avoidance (OSEC)

Labor Dispute Settlement and Prevention

Conciliation and Mediation (NCMB)

Voluntary Arbitration (NCMB)

Compulsory Arbitration (NLRC)

Promotion of Labor and Management Cooperation and Grievance Machinery (NCMB)

Labor Education (BLR, ROs)

Tripartite Industrial Peace Council

Promotion of Unionism and Collective Bargaining (BLR, ROs)

Workers Organization and Development Program (WODP) (BLR, ROs)

Offices
Office of the Secretary

Key Officials:

Secretary

Rosalinda Baldoz
Office of the Undersecretaries

Undersecretary

Danilo P. Cruz

Undersecretary

Lourdes M. Trasmonte

Undersecretary for Labor Relations

Hans Leo J. Cacdac

Acting Undersecretary

Rebecca Chato
Office of the Assistant Secretaries

Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs

Rebecca J. Calzado

Assistant Secretary for Labor Relations Cluster

Ma. Joji V. Aragon

Assistant Secretary Labor Standards & Social Protection Cluster

Ma. Teresa M. Soriano

Attached Agencies

Bureau of Local Employment (BLE) - has the following mandate and functions:

1. Formulate policies, standards and procedures on productive manpower resources, development,

utilization and allocation;

2. Establish and administer a machinery for the effective allocation of manpower resources for maximum
employment and placement;

3. Develop and maintain a responsive vocational guidance and testing system in aid of proper human
resources allocation;

4. Regulate and supervise a private sector participation in the recruitment and placement of workers
locally under such rules and regulations as may be issued by the Secretary;

5. Establish and maintain a registration or work permit system to regulate employment of aliens;

6. Develop and maintain a labor market information system in aid of proper manpower and development
planning;

7. Formulate employment programs designed to benefit disadvantaged groups and communities; and

8. Perform other functions as may be provided by law.

 Bureau of Labor and Employment Statistics (BLES) - is responsible for providing quality statistical
information and services on labor and employment to support labor administration, governance and
international cooperation.

Bureau of Labor Relations (BLR) - is a registry of unions and collective bargaining agreements. It
formulates regulatory and developmental policies, standards, guidelines and programs on the promotion of
the right to organize, including collective bargaining and improvement of the incomes of workers and their
organizations. It is the lead agency in worker and employer education and adjudicates inter- and intra-
union disputes, and promotes bipartism and tripartism.

Bureau of Working Conditions (BWC) - performs primarily policy and program development and advisory
functions for the Department in the administration and enforcement of laws relating to working conditions.

Organizational Info
Posted: 19 September 2015

The COMELEC is the principal government agency tasked by the Constitution to

enforce and administer all laws and regulations concerning the conduct of regular
and special elections. It is a body that is designed to be constitutionally independent
from the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government to ensure the
conduct of free, fair and honest elections. As an added measure, the constitution
also grants fiscal autonomy to enable the COMELEC to operate effectively,
efficiently and free from political interference. The constitution mandates that "funds
certified by the Commission as necessary to defray the expenses for holding regular
and special elections, plebiscites, initiatives, referenda, and recalls, will be provided
in the regular or special appropriations and, once approved, will be released
automatically upon certification by the Chairman of the Commission."

Judicial, Regulatory and Administrative Functions

In addition to its primary task of election administration, the COMELEC also

performs judicial, regulatory and administrative functions. Its judicial mandate
consists of taking exclusive original jurisdiction over all contests relating to the
elections, returns, and qualifications of all elective regional, provincial, and city
officials, and appellate jurisdiction over all contests involving elective municipal
officials decided by trial courts of general jurisdiction, or involving elective barangay
officials decided by trial courts of limited jurisdiction. Exception issues involving the
right to vote, it has regulatory and administrative authority to decide on all questions
affecting elections, including determination of the number and location of polling
places, appointment of election officials and inspectors, and registration of voters.

Recommendatory Powers

The Commission has the power to propose to Congress measures to minimize

election spending, including limitation of places where propaganda materials will be
posted, and to prevent and penalize all forms of election frauds, offenses,
malpractices, and nuisance candidacies. Likewise, it can recommend to the
President the removal of any officer or employee it has deputized, or the imposition
of any other disciplinary action, for violation or disregard of, or disobedience to, its
directive, order, or decision. On its own, or upon verified complaint, the COMELEC
can file petitions in court for inclusion or exclusion of voters and
investigate/prosecute cases of violations of election laws, including acts or
omissions constituting election frauds, offenses, and malpractices.

Membership

The COMELEC consists of one Chairman and 6 commissioners, all of whom have a
7-year term without reappointment. In all matters pertaining to election
administration and policymaking, the commissioners act as a collegial body. In
election cases and pre-proclamation controversies, however, the Commission sits in
two divisions initially, but decides en banc on motion to reconsider a division
decision.

Offices and Departments

Assisting the Chairman in managing the day-to-day affairs and operations of the
COMELEC is the Executive Director. As the highest-ranking career official, he
implements the policies and decisions of the Commission, takes charge of the
administrative affairs and serves as the communication and operational link between
the staff and Commissioners. He is assisted by a Deputy Executive Director for
Administration (DEDA) and a Deputy Executive Director for Operations (DEDO).

Mission

We, the guardians of the sovereign will of the Filipino people commit ourselves to
conduct clean, credible, free, honest, orderly and modernized electoral exercises
and to empower the electorate toward a vibrant Philippine democracy.

Vision

Empowered, independent and fully modernized institution ensuring credible

elections in strong partnership with an enlightened citizenry.

Values Statement

In pursuit of our mission, we shall be guided by the highest standard of integrity,

honesty, accountability, impartiality, and transparency. We are driven by the values
of respect, teamwork, and achievement.

Performance Pledge
Kami, Mga Kawani ng Komisyon ng Halalan ay

Handang maglingkod ng tapat, maayos at maka-mamayan. Bukas kami mula Lunes

hanggang Biyernes, mula ika walo ng umaga hanggang ikalima ng hapon.

Aming pahahalagahan at ipatutupad ang mga batas at alituntunin ukol sa halalan at

mga karapatang kaakibat nito.

Laging pakikinggan at tutugunan ang inyong mga katanungan at hinaing ukol sa

aming serbisyo. Tumawag po lamang sa numerong 527-0821/525-9294 o kaya ay
bisitahin ninyo ang COMELEC website(www.comelec.gov.ph).

Aaksyunan ang bawat kahilingan ng naayon sa batas. Pumunta lamang sa

pinakamalapit na tanggapan ng COMELEC sa inyong lugar.
Lalawakan at pagyayamanin ang kaalaman ng mga botante ukol sa kanilang
karapatang bumoto (voter's education).

Aalagaan at babantayan ang inyong boto sa abot ng aming makakaya.

Nangangakong lahat ng ito'y tutuparin tungo sa isang MALINIS,

MAKATOTOHANAN AT MAKABULUHANG HALALAN

COMELEC Pag-asa ka ng Bayan!

Powers and Functions

Posted: 05 November 2015
Powers and Functions

The enlarged Commission on Elections was designed to cope with its expanded
powers and functions provided for under the constitution and existing laws. The
Commission performs the following specific powers and functions:

1. Enforce and administer all laws and regulations relative to the conduct of an
election, plebiscite, initiative, referendum, and recall.

2. Exercise exclusive original jurisdiction over all contests relating to the elections,
returns, and qualifications of all elective regional, provincial, and city officials,
and appellate jurisdiction over all contests involving elective municipal officials
decided by trial courts of general jurisdiction, or involving elective barangay
officials decided by trial courts of limited jurisdiction.

3. Decide, except those involving the right to vote, all questions affecting elections,
including determination of the number and location of polling places,
appointment of election officials and inspectors, registration of voters.

4. Deputize, with the concurrence of the President, law enforcement agencies and
instrumentalities of the Government, including the Armed Forces of the
Philippines, for the exclusive purpose of ensuring free, orderly, honest,
peaceful, and credible elections.

5. Register, after sufficient publication, political parties, organizations, or coalitions

which, in addition to other requirements, must present their platform or program
of government; and accredited citizens' arms of the Commission on Elections.
6. File, upon a verified complaint, or on its own initiative, petitions in court for
inclusion or exclusion of voters; investigate and, where appropriate, prosecute
cases of violations of election laws, including acts or omissions constituting
elections frauds, offences, and malpractices.

7. Recommend to the Congress effective measures to minimize election spending,

including limitation of places where propaganda materials shall be posted, and
to prevent and penalize all forms of election frauds, offences, malpractices, and
nuisance candidates.

8. Recommend to the President the removal of any officer or employee it has

deputized, or the imposition of any other disciplinary action, for violation or
disregard of, or disobedience to its directive, order, or decision.

9. Submit to the President and the Congress a comprehensive report on the

conduct of each election, plebiscite, initiative referendum, or recall.