Dirección del Trabajo

The Dirección del Trabajo (DT) is Chile’s labour authority: it inspects workplaces and interprets labour law for employers, workers and unions. Its interpretation is published as administrative doctrine, and that is what is here:

Dictámenes: about 5,000 since 1990, the pronouncements that set the DT’s doctrine, numbered <number>/<correlative> (e.g. 388/32).
Ordinarios: about 7,900, the DT’s answers to specific consultations, which apply its doctrine.
Circulares, órdenes de servicio and resoluciones: the DT’s instructions and resolutions that bear on how labour law is applied.

Each comes with its number and date, its materias and summary, the labelled parts of its text (action, background, legal sources, concordances, who signs and who it is addressed to), the DT’s index of concordant pronouncements and of the provisions cited, the full text, and every file the DT published with it, kept byte for byte. Search first, then read one in full.

The whole source, organized and ready to query: every endpoint on this page answers in milliseconds. Every response carries as_of: how current the data is. How datasets work.

Search the pronouncements

POST /cl/dt-cl/pronouncements-search/v1 Dataset One search over every dictamen, ordinario, circular, orden de servicio and resolución the Dirección del Trabajo publishes, filtered by kind, number, year or date.

Field	Type	Notes
`query`	string	Optional words in Spanish, matched against the title, the materias, the summary, the descriptors and the full text, e.g. `registro de asistencia`. Every word must appear.
`type`	enum	Optional kind: `dictamen` (sets doctrine), `ordinario` (answers a consultation), `circular`, `orden_de_servicio` or `resolucion`.
`number`	string	Optional number: `388/32` for a dictamen with its correlative, or `388` for every pronouncement numbered 388. Dots, spaces and leading zeros are ignored.
`year`	integer	Optional year it was issued. 0 searches every year. Default `0`.
`from_date`	string	Optional: only those issued on or after this date, `yyyy-mm-dd`.
`to_date`	string	Optional: only those issued on or before this date, `yyyy-mm-dd`.
`page`	integer	1-based page number. Default `1`.
`per_page`	integer	Results per page (1-50). Default `20`.

curl https://api.croma.run/cl/dt-cl/pronouncements-search/v1 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CROMA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "query": "registro de asistencia", "type": "dictamen" }'

Returns as_of (how current the data is), the applied filters, total and total_is_exact, page, per_page, total_pages, count and results[], most recent first. Every result carries id (the DT’s permanent id, e.g. 129643), type (dictamen, ordinario, circular, orden_de_servicio or resolucion), title (e.g. ORD.N°388/32), number (normalized, e.g. 388/32) and correlative (a dictamen’s part after /), issued_at and year, subjects (the materias), summary, keywords (the DT’s descriptors), the labelled parts of the text: action (ACTUACIÓN), background (ANTECEDENTES), legal_sources (FUENTES), concordances (CONCORDANCIA), sender (DE) and recipient (A), and every part in order in sections (each with label and text), concordance_tags and legal_references (the DT’s own index of concordant pronouncements and of the provisions cited), related (the pronouncements the DT lists as concordant, each with id, type, title and issued_at), documents (every file the DT publishes with it, each with name, label, format, size_kb, document_url, Croma’s byte-identical copy, and source_document_url), document_url and source_document_url (those of the first file) and text_source. Fields the DT does not state are null or empty.

Search results leave out the full text. query still matches against it; read the text itself with the Dirección del Trabajo Chile Pronouncement endpoint.

One pronouncement, in full

POST /cl/dt-cl/pronouncement/v1 Dataset

Field	Type	Notes
`pronouncement_id`	string	Required. The pronouncement’s `id` from a search result, e.g. `129643`.
`offset`	integer	First character of the text to return. Pass the previous response’s `next_offset` to read on. Default `0`.
`limit`	integer	How many characters of the text to return. Most pronouncements fit in one response. Default `200000`.

curl https://api.croma.run/cl/dt-cl/pronouncement/v1 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CROMA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "pronouncement_id": "129643" }'

Returns as_of, found, pronouncement_id and pronouncement, which carries everything the search returns plus content (a window onto the full text, with text, offset, total_length, has_more and next_offset). Every result carries id (the DT’s permanent id, e.g. 129643), type (dictamen, ordinario, circular, orden_de_servicio or resolucion), title (e.g. ORD.N°388/32), number (normalized, e.g. 388/32) and correlative (a dictamen’s part after /), issued_at and year, subjects (the materias), summary, keywords (the DT’s descriptors), the labelled parts of the text: action (ACTUACIÓN), background (ANTECEDENTES), legal_sources (FUENTES), concordances (CONCORDANCIA), sender (DE) and recipient (A), and every part in order in sections (each with label and text), concordance_tags and legal_references (the DT’s own index of concordant pronouncements and of the provisions cited), related (the pronouncements the DT lists as concordant, each with id, type, title and issued_at), documents (every file the DT publishes with it, each with name, label, format, size_kb, document_url, Croma’s byte-identical copy, and source_document_url), document_url and source_document_url (those of the first file) and text_source. Fields the DT does not state are null or empty.

Long texts are read a range at a time: send offset and limit, then pass the response’s next_offset back as offset until has_more is false.

An id the Dirección del Trabajo has not published returns found: false with HTTP 200, not an error.

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