[2][6] It proposes, designs, elaborates, administers and supervises the policies in all that is inherent to the relations and individual and collective conditions of work, to the legal regime of collective bargaining and of the professional associations of workers and employers, to employment, job training and social security.

In addition, it was informally tasked with overseeing the government's relationship with Argentina's trade unions.

The secretariat was then elevated to ministerial level in the first cabinet of President Juan Perón; the first minister was José María Freire.

arbitration, as well as the functions of labor police, industrial hygiene services, inspection of mutual associations and those related to maritime, river and port work.

It was briefly disestablished during the dictatorship of Juan Carlos Onganía, being restored during the third and last presidency of Perón in 1973.