<P> The concern for the welfare of Children being employed to work started in the Philippines as early as 1923 . The American colonial government of that time enacted the very first set of rules and regulations in the country regarding Child - labor through Act No. 3071 , also known as `` An Act to Regulate the Employment of Women and Children in Shops , Factories , Industrial , Agricultural and Mercantile Establishments , and Other Place of Labor in the Philippine Islands , to Provide Penalties for Violations Hereof and for Other Purposes . '' The enforcement of this law was eventually overseen by the Woman and Child Labor Section of the Inspection Division of the then Bureau of Labor in 1925 . When the Philippines declared independence from American rule in 1946 , all existing laws enacted under the former regime were replaced by Republic Acts . Act No. 3071 was renamed R.A. 695 thereafter and the implementation was entrusted to the Women and Minors Division of the former Bureau of Labor Standards , in 1957 . </P>
<P> The concern for the welfare of Children being employed to work started in the Philippines as early as 1923 . The American colonial government of that time enacted the very first set of rules and regulations in the country regarding Child - labor through Act No. 3071 , also known as `` An Act to Regulate the Employment of Women and Children in Shops , Factories , Industrial , Agricultural and Mercantile Establishments , and Other Place of Labor in the Philippine Islands , to Provide Penalties for Violations Hereof and for Other Purposes . '' The enforcement of this law was eventually overseen by the Woman and Child Labor Section of the Inspection Division of the then Bureau of Labor in 1925 . When the Philippines declared independence from American rule in 1946 , all existing laws enacted under the former regime were replaced by Republic Acts . Act No. 3071 was renamed R.A. 695 thereafter and the implementation was entrusted to the Women and Minors Division of the former Bureau of Labor Standards , in 1957 . </P>
when did child labor start in the philippines
when did child labor start in the philippines
1923
1923