Practice question
A directly hired employee performs the employer's continuing ordinary bookkeeping work, stipulated to be usually necessary or desirable to the business. No valid probationary, project, seasonal or other exceptional arrangement applies. The employer says regularity cannot arise merely because the employee has served only four months. Which answer is correct?
- Every employee must wait five years.
- Every employee must wait one year regardless of the work.
- Every employee must first become a contractor.
- The employee can never be regular if paid monthly.
- The nature-of-work basis can establish regular employment without a universal one-year waiting period.
Legal references
- https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1974/pd_442_1974.html — Labor Code, Article 295 [formerly 280].
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