Secretariat of Labor and Social Welfare (Mexico)

Mexico
Secretariat of Labor and Social Welfare

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Agency overview
Jurisdiction	Mexico
Agency executive	Alfonso Navarrete Prida, Secretary
Child agency	Federal Police (Mexico)
Website	http://www.stps.gob.mx

The Mexican Secretariat of Labor and Social Welfare (Spanish: Secretaría del Trabajo y Previsión Social, STPS) is a Federal Government Department in charge of all social health services in the Mexican Republic. The Secretary is a member of the federal executive cabinet. In addition to the legal Executive Cabinet there are other Cabinet-level administration offices that report directly to the President of the Republic, and the Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare is appointed by the President of Mexico.

• Supervises the implementation of the regulations in Article 123 concerning labor.
• Attempts to achieve a balance between production factors, in keeping with the appropriate legal regulations.

List of secretaries

President Manuel Ávila Camacho (1941–1946)  : Ignacio García Téllez President Miguel Alemán (1946–1948)  : Andrés Serra Rojas (1948–1952)  : Manuel Ramírez Vázquez President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines (1952–1957) : Adolfo López Mateos (1957–1058)  : Salomón González Blanco President Adolfo López Mateos (1958–1964)  : Salomón González Blanco President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (1964–1970)  : Salomón González Blanco President Luis Echeverría (1970–1972) : Rafael Hernández Ochoa (1972–1975) : Porfirio Muñoz Ledo (1975–1976) : Carlos Gálvez Betancourt President José López Portillo (1976–1982)  : Pedro Ojeda Paullada

President Miguel de la Madrid (1982–1988) : Arsenio Farell Cubillas President Carlos Salinas de Gortari (1988–1994) : Arsenio Farell Cubillas (1994–1994)  : Manuel Gómez Peralta President Ernesto Zedillo (1994–1995) : Santiago Oñate Laborde (1995–1998)  : Javier Bonilla García (1998–1999)  : José Antonio González Fernández (1999–2000) : Mariano Palacios Alcocer President Vicente Fox (2000–2005)  : José Carlos María Abascal Carranza (2005–2006) : Francisco Javier Salazar Sáenz President Felipe Calderón (2006–2011) : Javier Lozano Alarcón (2011-2012)  : Rosalinda Vélez Juárez President Enrique Peña Nieto (2012–present ) Alfonso Navarrete Prida

External links

• Official Website of Labor and Social Welfare
• Official site of the President's Cabinet