QuestionsQuestions (IRR of Republic Act No. 11659)
Acts No. 1868, enacted on June 18, 1908.
It was established in the Department of Commerce and Police.
To ensure proper enforcement of existing and future labor/capital laws and to promote additional legislation for the material, social, intellectual, and moral improvement of workers.
Data on hours and wages; employed/unemployed workers by trade; place of birth, age, sex, “civil slums,” moral and mental culture; details of married workers and their housing/property; cost of living and labor required; persons dependent on daily wages; changes in employed persons; conditions in labor establishments (including prisons) re safety/health; accident statistics and reparation actions; wage-payment certainty; savings banks; corporations/strikes/suspensions/other labor difficulties and remedies; mutual benefit associations/insurance societies/statistical and cooperative organizations and their effects; employment agencies; and commercial/industrial/social/educational/moral/sanitary condition of workers; for foreign-born workers, date of arrival and length of stay.
It may inspect shops, factories, railways, tramways, vessels, and other labor centers public or private; take legal steps to prevent exposure of workers’ health or lives; and assist workers to secure just compensation for labor and indemnity for injuries from accidents while performing duties.
To secure settlement of differences between employer and laborer and to avert strikes and lockouts by inducing the parties to submit their differences to arbitration.
To organize, in towns it deems necessary or advisable, one or more employment agencies.
With the approval of the Governor-General, the Director of Labor may administer oaths, issue subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum, and receive and take affidavits and testimony of witnesses and experts during investigations authorized by the Act.
They are appointed by the Governor-General, by and with the consent of the Philippine Commission.
The Director of Labor exercises the Bureau’s powers and performs its duties; the Assistant Director performs the Director’s duties during absence or disability and performs other duties required by the Director.
Director of Labor: seven thousand pesos per annum; Assistant Director of Labor: four thousand pesos per annum.
Yes. It states the Act shall take effect on its passage.
Section 2(c) focuses on inspection to prevent exposure of workers’ health or lives, and on legal steps for just compensation and statutory indemnity for accidents.
Yes. Section 2(d) explicitly calls for inducing parties to submit differences to arbitration to avert strikes and lockouts.
It refers to subpoenas requiring a person to bring and produce documents or records for an investigation or hearing.