Department of Labor and Employment (Philippines)

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Department of Labor and Employment
Kagawaran ng Paggawa at Empleo
Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).svg
Logo of the department
Flag of the Department of Labor and Employment.jpg
Flag of the department
DOLE (Intramuros, Manila; 02-06-2021).jpg
DOLE building, Intramuros, Manila
Department overview
FormedDecember 8, 1933;91 years ago (1933-12-08)
HeadquartersDOLE Building, Muralla corner General Luna St., Intramuros, Manila
Employees2,109 (2024) [1]
Annual budgetDecrease2.svg ₱41.4 billion (2023) [2]
Minister responsible
Department executive
  • Hero S. Hernandez, Head Executive Assistant, Office of the Secretary
Website www.dole.gov.ph

The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE; Filipino : Kagawaran ng Paggawa at Empleo) [3] is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for formulating policies, implementing programs and services, and serving as the policy-coordinating arm of the executive branch in the field of labor and employment. It is tasked with the enforcement of the provisions of the Labor Code. [4]

Contents

History

American colonial period

Beginning as a bureau in 1908, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) was founded on December 8, 1933, by virtue of Act No. 4121 of the Philippine Legislature. [5] During the Great Depression, the labor department experienced challenges, particularly peasant violence throughout Central Luzon. The first labor secretary, Ramon Torres, proved to be unpopular among sugar workers due to him being a sugar hacendero himself. President Manuel L. Quezon then replaced Torres with Jose Avelino, who was a staunch anti-communist. Ineffective to handle the continued violence, Avelino was replaced with Leon Guinto as its third labor secretary. Unlike Avelino, Guinto suggested social reforms to the president, albeit, creating a program dubbed "Quezonian communism". He thought that this to would counter communism in the Philippines. [6] : 232 

Republic of the Philippines

It was renamed as the Ministry of Labor and Employment in 1978. The agency was reverted to its original name after the People Power Revolution in 1986. [7]

List of secretaries of labor and employment

Organizational structure

The department is headed by a Secretary with the following Undersecretaries and Assistant Secretaries:

Bureaus

Attached agencies

Seals

References

  1. ↑ Department of Budget and Management. "Staffing Summary Fiscal Year 2024" (PDF). Retrieved April 24, 2025.
  2. ↑ "People's Proposed Budget 2023" (PDF). Department of Budget and Management. Retrieved December 17, 2022.
  3. ↑ "Mga Pangalan ng Tanggapan ng Pamahalaan sa Filipino" (PDF). Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (in Filipino). 2013. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 29, 2017. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Labor Code of the Philippines". Philippine Government. Retrieved June 1, 2009.
  5. ↑ "ROLE: Department of Labor and Employment". RAPPLER. September 5, 2025. Retrieved September 6, 2025.
  6. ↑ Larkin, John A. (1993). Sugar and the Origins of Modern Philippine Society. University of California Press. ISBN   978-0-520-07956-4.
  7. ↑ "EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF THE 1999 ANNUAL AUDIT REPORT ON THE of DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT". Commission on Audit. Retrieved June 1, 2009.
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