Practice question
A client's only established instruction is a general guideline identifying the contracted result. No right to direct the worker's means or methods is established. Does that guideline alone necessarily prove the control factor?
- No; general guidance about the result is not automatically control over means and methods.
- Yes, every customer instruction creates employment.
- Yes, a result specification always makes the client an employer.
- Yes, the words 'complete the task' decide the whole test.
- No, because payment can never be relevant either.
Legal references
- https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/1/68763 — Ditiangkin v. Lazada E-Services Philippines, Inc., GR 246892, September 21, 2022, main decision, fourfold-test discussion.
- https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2025/aug2025/gr_220087_2025.html - Hacienda San Isidro/Silos Farms v. Villaruel, GR 220087, August 11, 2025, Court resolution, control and proof.
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