Rosalinda Baldoz

Rosalinda Baldoz
Secretary of Labor and Employment
In office June 30, 2010 – June 30, 2016
President	Benigno Aquino III
Preceded by	Marianito D. Roque
Succeeded by	Silvestre Bello III
Administrator of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration
In office 2001–2010
President	Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Succeeded by	Hans Leo J. Cacdac
Personal details
Nationality	Filipino
Alma mater	Manuel L. Quezon University National Defense College of the Philippines
Occupation	Civil servant
Profession	Lawyer

Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz is a Filipina lawyer, civil servant, and labor arbiter. She served as Secretary of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) of the Philippines under the administration of President Benigno Aquino III.

Profile

Baldoz was a practicing lawyer before she joined the Department of Labor and Employment. She has been a consistent scholar from elementary up to her tertiary and post-graduate education, holds bachelor's degrees in Arts & Science and Law, and a master's degree in National Security Administration. She is a commissioned officer with the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Reserve Force, Philippine Army, Armed Forces of the Philippines.

She had received two scholarship grants in industrial relations: a Colombo Plan scholarship in Australia and a US Agency for International Development (USAID) scholarship at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. She holds the designation of Career Executive Service Officer I (CESO I), the highest career executive service rank in the Philippines.

Government service

Baldoz rose through the ranks from being a contractual staff at the Bureau of Labor Relations in 1975 to different positions in the Department of Labor and Employment such as mediator-arbiter in 1976, labor arbiter at the National Labor Relations Commission in 1982, Deputy Administrator, later Deputy Executive Director, and finally, Executive Director of the National Conciliation and Mediation Board in 1997.

In 1998, she was named Undersecretary for Labor Relations and Management of the Department. During the time of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Baldoz was elevated to the position of Administrator of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA).

Labor Secretary, 2010-2016

After Aquino won a landslide in the 2010 presidential elections, Baldoz was tapped to join the cabinet to head the labor portfolio. She replaced then acting labor secretary Marianito Roque, a former Administrator of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA).

As Labor Secretary, she presided over the POEA governing board as chairperson. Baldoz also sat as one of the board of directors of Land Bank of the Philippines.