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The Labor Code and other legislated labor laws are implemented primarily by government agencies, namely, Department of Labor and Employment and Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (now the country's Department of Migrant Workers). Non-government entities, such as the trade unions and employers, also play a role in the country's labor.
Article 99 of the Labor Code of the Philippines stipulates that an employer may go over but never below minimum wage. Paying below the minimum wage is illegal. [10] The Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Boards is the body that sets the amount for the minimum wage. In the Philippines, the minimum wage of a worker depends on where he works.
Philippine Occupational Therapy Law March 11, 2019 [57] 11249 Speech Language Pathology Act March 22, 2019 [58] 11261 First Time Job Seekers Assistance Act April 10, 2019 [59] 11285 Energy Efficiency and Conservation Act April 12, 2019 [60] 11291 Magna Carta of the Poor April 12, 2019 [61] 11292 The Seal of Good Local Governance Act of 2019
Labor education, standards and statistics; Organization of the labor market including recruitment, training and placement of workers and exports of human resources; Foreign workers in the Philippines; Promotion and development of workers' organizations; Promotion and development of employment-intensive technology
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) was founded on December 8, 1933, by virtue of Act No. 4121 of the Philippine Legislature. 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. [4]
Advancement and protection of the rights and welfare of worker; Employment and manpower development inclusive of the promotion of industrial peace and employer-employee cooperation; Labor education; Labor standards and statistics; Organization and development of the labor market including the recruitment, training and placement of manpower
Under the centralised forest management regime of Ferdinand Marcos between 1970 and 1980, annual deforestation was particularly high at 300,000 hectares. [5] As a result of this deforestation, the Philippines had one of the highest forest losses in the Asia-Pacific region at the turn of the century. [12]
Polo y servicio was the forced labor system without compensation [1] imposed upon the local population in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial period. [2] In concept, it was similar to Repartimiento, a forced labor system used in the Spanish America. [3] The word polo refers to community work, and the laborer was called polista. [4]