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The Department of Labor and Employment is composed of the following offices:

Office of the Secretary

Office of the Undersecretaries
1. Employment
2. Labor Relations
3. Workers Protection and Welfare

Office of the Assistant Secretaries
1. Internal Affairs
2. External Affairs
3. Policy and Program Support

Sixteen (16) Regional Offices
The Regional Offices (ROs) are the DOLE’s frontline offices. They deliver directly to DOLE clients the services they need. The ROs implement the programs and projects drawn up by the Bureaus, and administer and enforce labor laws.

Thirty-four (34) Philippine Overseas Labor Offices (POLOs)
The POLOs act as the operating arm of the Department in their respective geographical areas for the administration and enforcement of duly adopted policies and programs of the Department on international labor affairs.

Eleven (11) Attached Agencies

  1. Employees Compensation Commission - grant of benefits to workers who suffer work-related injuries, sickness, disability or death
  2. Institute for Labor Studies - labor policy research and advocacy
  3. Maritime Training Council - formulation of appropriate training policies and regulates operations of privately-owned maritime training center to ensure the Filipino seafarers’ qualifications with International Maritime Standards
  4. National Conciliation and Mediation Board - settlement of labor dispute through conciliation and preventive mediation
  5. National Labor Relations Commission - disposition of compulsory arbitration cases
  6. National Maritime Polytechnic - upgrading the competence of licensed merchant marine officers and ratings to ensure the primacy of Filipino seafarers in world shipping
  7. National Wages and Productivity Commission - wage-setting and productivity improvement consistent with national development plans
  8. Occupational Safety and Health Center - continuing researches and studies on occupational safety and health, develop and implement programs for the protection of workers
  9. Overseas Workers Welfare Administration - extension of social, welfare and other assistance to OFWs and their dependents
  10. Philippine Overseas Employment Administration - supervision of the deployment of OFWs under the best possible terms, and the regulation of private sector participation in recruitment and overseas placement
  11. Technical Education and Skills Development Authority - training and retraining of workers to produce globally competitive Filipino workers

Six (6) Bureaus
The Bureaus perform staff functions such as initiating policy and program development, providing advisory, and exercising technical supervision over regional offices in their respective areas of specialization.

  1. Labor and Employment Statistics - production and analyses of labor and employment statistics
  2. Labor Relations - administration and enforcement of laws relating to labor-management relations
  3. Local Employment - employment promotion and administration and enforcement of laws relating to local recruitment and placement, alien employment and apprenticeship
  4. Rural Workers - administration and enforcement of laws relating to rural workers
  5. Women and Young Workers - administration and enforcement of laws relating to working women and young workers for the protection and promotion of their welfare and interest
  6. Working Conditions - administration and enforcement of laws relating to working conditions

Seven (7) Services
The Services provide planning, administrative, human resource development, financial, legal, information and international affairs support to the Department.

  1. Administrative
  2. Financial and Management
  3. Human Resource and Development
  4. Information and Publication
  5. International Labor Affairs
  6. Legal
  7. Planning