“THE PRIMARY GOVERNMENT AGENCY MANDATED TO 

PROMOTE GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES,

DEVELOP HUMAN RESOURCES, PROTECT WORKERS

AND PROMOTE THEIR WELFARE, AND MAINTAIN

INDUSTRIAL PEACE“.

 
 

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HISTORY

The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) started as a small bureau in 1908. It became a department on December 8, 1933 with the passage of Act 4121. The DOLE is the national government agency mandated to formulate and implement policies and programs, and serve as the policy-advisory arm of the Executive Branch in the field of labor and employment. It consists of the Office of the Secretary, 7 bureaus, 6 services, 16 regional offices, 12 attached agencies and 38 overseas offices with a full manpower complement of 9,806. It operates on a current budget of Php 6.618 B and ranks 14th out of 21 departments.


VISION

” Every Filipino workers attains full, decent and productive employment”


MISSION

To promote gainful employment opportunities;

To develop human resources;

To protect workers and promote their welfare; and

To maintain  industrial peace


AGENDA

  1. Continuously enhance and transform DOLE into an efficient, responsive, purposeful and accountable institution;
  2. Address the persistent problems of unemployment and underemployment;
  3. Ensure full respect of labor standards and  the fundamental principles and rights at work;
  4. Continuously strengthen protection and security of our overseas Filipino workers;
  5. Bring more focus and accessibility in workers’ protection and welfare programs;
  6. Achieve a sound, dynamic and  stable industrial peace with free and demographic participation of workers and employers in policy and decision making processes affecting  them;
  7. Have a labor dispute resolution system that ensures just, simplified and expeditious resolution of all labor disputes; and
  8. Have a responsive , enabling, and equitable labor policies, laws and regulations

CLIENTS, PARTNERS AND LINKAGES

It serves more than 38.51 million workers comprising the country’s labor force , including the 3.62 million temporary migrants working in about 215 destinations worldwide .

The DOLE clients include trade unions, workers’ organizations and employers and/or employers’ groups (i.e., ECOP, chambers of commerce and industries, TUCP, FFW, etc). There are 123 existing Tripartite Industrial Peace Councils or TIPCs (13 regional, 44 provincial, and 66 city/municipal) and 128 existing Industry Tripartite Councils (46 regional, 48 provincial and 34 city/municipal) serving as mechanisms for social dialogue in addressing labor and employment issues.

The DOLE also maintains linkages with non-government organizations (NGOs), government agencies, the academe, partner international organizations (e.g., ILO, IOM, IMO, UNDP, UNICEF), and with the international community, particularly the host countries where our OFWs are based.

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