Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz is a Filipina lawyer, civil servant, and labor arbiter. She served as Secretary of the

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Baldoz was a practicing lawyer before she joined the Department of Labor and Employment. She is 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,

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. She had received two scholarships grants in industrial relations: a

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scholarship in Australia and a US Agency for International Development (USAID) scholarship at

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. 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

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, Baldoz was elevated to the position of Administrator of the

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(POEA).

Labor Secretary, 2010-2016

After Aquino won 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

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