Short answer. Yes, in principle. Article 14 of the Labor Code expressly authorizes the Secretary of Labor to develop a program that facilitates the geographical mobility of labor and to provide assistance in the relocation of workers from one area to another, alongside a nationwide job clearance and information system covering opportunities in other regions.

What the law says

To develop and organize a program that will facilitate occupational, industrial and geographical mobility of labor and provide assistance in the relocation of workers from one area to another

Labor Code, Article 14 — Powers To Promote Employment. Read the full provision →

What the law says

To organize and establish a nationwide job clearance and information system to inform applicants registering with a particular employment office of job opportunities in other parts of the country as well as job opportunities abroad

Labor Code, Article 14 — Powers To Promote Employment. Read the full provision →

What Article 14 empowers the Department to do

Article 14 of the Labor Code, on employment promotion, gives the Secretary of Labor four powers. The Secretary may organize new employment offices in addition to existing ones as the need arises; establish a nationwide job clearance and information system; develop a program facilitating the occupational, industrial and geographical mobility of labor, with assistance in relocating workers; and require any person, establishment, organization or institution to submit employment information. Taken together, these are the legal foundations of the public employment service — the machinery through which the government matches people looking for work with employers looking for people, wherever in the country each happens to be.

Relocation assistance is written into the Code

The provision most directly on your question is the third power: "To develop and organize a program that will facilitate occupational, industrial and geographical mobility of labor and provide assistance in the relocation of workers from one area to another." The Code, in other words, treats a worker's move from a region with few jobs to a region with many as something the labor department should actively help with, not merely permit. Geographical mobility is named alongside occupational and industrial mobility — moving between places is put on the same footing as moving between trades and industries as something the program is meant to ease.

Finding out what jobs exist in another region

Before anyone relocates, they need to know what is on the other end, and Article 14 addresses that too. The Secretary is empowered "to organize and establish a nationwide job clearance and information system to inform applicants registering with a particular employment office of job opportunities in other parts of the country as well as job opportunities abroad." The design is that a worker who registers with an employment office in one place should be able to learn about openings elsewhere — including overseas — through one connected system, rather than having to travel first and search blind. The employer-side duty to submit employment information is what feeds that system.

What the article does not promise

Be clear about the nature of this provision: it is an enabling article, addressed to the Secretary of Labor. It empowers the Department to build programs; it does not, by itself, give an individual worker an enforceable claim to a specific allowance, ticket, or subsidy for moving. What assistance actually exists at any given time, who qualifies, and on what terms are set by the programs and issuances implementing this mandate — and those change. So the honest answer is: the legal basis for relocation help is squarely in the Labor Code, but the concrete benefits available to you now are something to verify with the employment office where you register, rather than assume from the statute's text.

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