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Practice question: Trilateral Relationship

Multiple Choice Hard

Practice question

A regular contractor employee is told that a client’s contract expiry is, by itself, a completed lawful dismissal. No other ground is asserted. Which response accords with Section13?
  1. The client contract’s expiry is not itself deemed termination of regular contractor employment
  2. The commercial expiry conclusively establishes serious misconduct
  3. Every contractor employee is necessarily a client project employee
  4. The client may waive the contractor’s employee tenure obligations
  5. All unpaid employee benefits automatically lapse

Legal references

  • DOLE Department Order174-2017: https://www.ble.dole.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/DO-174-17-Rules-Implementing-Articles-106-to-109-of-the-Labor-Code-As-Amended1.pdf Sections11–13, two contracts and security of tenure.

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