Practice question
A local recruiter charges each employer a nominal PHP 1 recruitment fee and says the small amount necessarily makes it a no-fee entity. Resolve the asserted threshold.
- Only worker-paid fees count
- A fee below PHP 100 is legally nonexistent
- Every nominal fee is necessarily a donation
- An actual recruitment fee does not cease to count merely because it is nominal
- Every small operator is government-owned
Legal references
- Labor Code, Articles 13 and 29: https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1974/pd_442_1974.html
- DOLE Department Order No. 216-20, Articles II-III and VIII-IX, signed October 27, 2020, printed pages 5-8 and 14-17: https://batangmalaya.ph/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/DOLE-Department-Order-No.-216-Series-of-2020-min-1-with-cover.pdf
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