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The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is one of the executive departments of the Philippine government mandated to formulate policies, implement plans and programs, and serve as the policy-coordinating arm of the Executive Branch in the field of labor and employment. For the very first time, the DOLE Secretary is now a full-fledged member of the President's Economic Team.


The AmCham Human Capital and Resources Committee has invited Undersecretary Benedicto Ernesto R. Bitonio, Jr. to discuss the labor and employment policies, plans, and programs of the new Administration. He is also expected to provide AmCham members, Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), and HR practitioners with updates on the recent and pending DOLE Orders, Advisories, plans, and programs that shall henceforth affect business leaders and HR practitioners.

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Speaker

  • Atty. Benedicto Ernesto R. Bitonio, Jr. (Undersecretary, Labor Relations, Policy and International Affairs at Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE))

    Atty. Benedicto Ernesto R. Bitonio, Jr.

    Undersecretary, Labor Relations, Policy and International Affairs at Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)

    Atty. Benedicto Bitonio, Jr. is currently serving as the Undersecretary of the Labor Relations, Policy and International Affairs of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). He is a practicing lawyer, an independent consultant, and a professorial lecturer at the University of the Philippines. He is a subject matter expert on industrial relations, employment, labor law and regulation, public management, and development management and finance.

    He has done policy, management, legal and labor relations consulting in several national institutions and private companies in the Philippines including with the Employers’ Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP), and in international organizations such as the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the ASEAN Trade Union Council. He has been a consultant on projects for strengthening industrial relations institutions in the Philippines, Cambodia, Vietnam and Indonesia. He has broad knowledge of international labour standards and of labour and employment relations and economic integration issues in South East Asia and the Pacific. He is frequently invited to speak in national and international forums and has published articles and papers on labour and industrial relations.

    Atty. Bitonio obtained degrees in Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws from the University of the Philippines, and a Master in Public Management degree from the National University of Singapore (NUS) during which he was also an executive fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He is currently based in Metro Manila, where he also lives with his wife and daughter.

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