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Practice question: Other Illicit Forms of Employment Arrangements

Multiple Choice Easy Jurisprudence

Practice question

Which shorter employment term falls within the express exception in section 6(i)?
  1. Any shorter term chosen solely to avoid regularization
  2. A shorter phase of a divisible contract requiring substantially different skills, made known to the employee at engagement
  3. Any shorter term printed in a standard form
  4. Any five-month term, regardless of the work
  5. Any shorter term requested secretly by the principal

Legal references

  • https://www.dole.gov.ph/php_assets/uploads/2017/07/DO-174-17-Rules-Implementing-Articles-106-to-109-of-the-Labor-Code-As-Amended1.pdf — DO 174-17, sections 3(b), 6–7, other illicit arrangements and effect of a finding.
  • https://www.scribd.com/document/768934000/Department-Order-No-174-Series-of-2017 — mirrored text of the issued DO 174-17, sections 3(b), 6–7.
  • https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/11/90581 — EO 51, s. 2018, sections 1–3.

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