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Practice question: Fourfold Test

Multiple Choice Easy

Practice question

In Hacienda San Isidro, could the right to control work methods simply be presumed from a right to review the quality of the result?
  1. Yes, all landowners control every worker’s methods by definition
  2. Yes, quality review conclusively proves every control power
  3. No
  4. Yes, wages replace control evidence
  5. Yes, possession of a farm proves dismissal authority

Legal references

  • Hacienda San Isidro/Silos Farms v. Villaruel, G.R. No. 220087, August 11, 2025, controlling MAIN resolution on reconsideration: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2025/aug2025/gr_220087_2025.html
  • DOLE Department Order No. 147-15, Rule I-A, Sections 2-3, official text reproduced in signed-order PDF: https://www.pasei.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/DOLE-Department-Order-No.-147-15-s2015.pdf

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