Department of Labor and Employment(DOLE)

April 29, 2021 Dear Lolita Pingol, Greetings! Thank you for your request dated Apr 26, 2021 04:23:00 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch. Your Request You asked for DATA OF LABOR UNIONS. Your FOI request is approved however, may we refer you to the Bureau of Labor Relations website: www.blr.gov.ph as most of the information you identified/requested is already available on-line. Please check the Online Union Verification Portal where you can search the registered union/s in an establishment or region. As for the list of union leaders/officers, the same is denied given that upon further evaluation of your request, the information you identified is among the exceptions listed in Annex A and/or the Inventory of Exceptions to Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) and are deemed confidential under Department Order No. 103-10, Series of 2010. If you are unhappy with this response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response by writing to [email protected]. Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made within 15 calendar days from the date when you received this letter. We will complete the review and tell you the result within 30 calendar days from the date when we receive your review request. If you are not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Office of the President under Administrative Order No. 22 (s. 2011). Thank you. Respectfully, Maria Rima Hernandez FOI Receiving Officer