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Practice question: Employment Agency vs. Recruitment Entity

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Practice question

Explain why a placement operator cannot establish that it is a private recruitment entity merely by calling a compulsory recruitment charge a service contribution paid through an intermediary. Assume the charge is in fact payment for recruitment.

Legal references

  • https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1974/pd_442_1974.html — Labor Code, Article 13(c)–(f), private fee-charging employment agency, license, private recruitment entity, and authority.

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