DOLE Freedom of Information (FOI) People's Manual

2016DOLE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (FOI) PEOPLE'S MANUAL DOLE PROFILEA. CREATION OF THE DEPARTMENTThe Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) traces its roots to 1908 when it was created as a small bureau — the Bureau of Labor — through the passage of Act No. 1868. 1 The Bureau was given the principal functions of: 1) seeing to the proper enforcement of laws with reference to labor and capital in the Philippines; 2) promoting the enactment of all other legislation that establishes the material, social, intellectual, and moral improvement of workers; 3) acquire, collect, compile, systematize statistical data relating to the hours and wages of labor, the number of workers in each trade or occupation, among others; 4) inspect all shops, factories, industrial and commercial establishments and take the proper legal steps to prevent the exposure of the health or lives of laborers; 5) aid and assist by all proper legal means laborers and workers in securing just compensation for their labor, and the indemnity prescribed by law for injuries resulting from accidents when engaged in...