8.1 Labour Department and Labour Office and Their Power and Functions

1. The Department of Labour (the Ministry's technical arm): the policy's implementation; the labour offices' direction; the inspection system's management; the disputes' oversight; the statistics-and-research; the migrant-labour interface (the Foreign Employment Department's sibling). 2. The Labour Offices (the field machinery): the appointment's registration (the hiring's notification); the disputes' conciliation (U7.2's forum); the workplace's monitoring (the standards' enforcement); the welfare's supervision (the funds' oversight); the certificates (the job-change's clearance faces).