Secretariat of Labor and Social Welfare (Mexico)

Mexico
Secretariat of Labor and Social Welfare
Agency overview
Secretariat of Labor and Social Welfare logo
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

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Leaders of the Mexican federal executive secretaries

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