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Dual employment
Dual employment is one person with two real employers at the same time. It happens when a Filipino keeps a local day job and takes your night seat, or when two affiliates each think they employ the same hire.
Also called two employers
How it works
Philippine moonlighting rules are mostly contractual unless a specific statute or a government post applies. Your risk is confidentiality, fatigue, and schedule collision, not a U.S. noncompete fantasy. Ask. Put exclusivity in the employment contract if you need it and will pay for it. On the affiliate side, pick one employer of record. Dual contracts for the same hours are how joint liability stories start.
Example: your EA also works 8 a.m.-5 p.m. PHT at a bank and takes your 6 p.m.-2 a.m. seat. Night differential and health load stack. Output falls in week five. The contract never banned the day job. You bought a tired person.
How it differs
Secondment is a planned loan of an employee. Trilateral employment is one employer plus one principal. Dual employment is two full relationships.
Common errors
Ignoring a second job because ‘everyone does it.’ Writing exclusivity and then paying a part-time rate.
In practice
Treat Dual employment as a week-one operating object. Name the employer on the contract and the manager in Slack. If those two names cannot both be true at once, the model is theater. Write an owner - founder, local employer, or worker - and a date you will look at it again: first cutoff, first holiday, or first miss. If nobody can show a contract clause, a payslip line, a calendar block, or a checklist box, you do not have dual employment yet. You have a conversation. Convert the conversation before the person starts, while changing the deal still costs a paragraph rather than a resignation. Re-read the worked example above against the actual hire in front of you. If the numbers in that example cannot be swapped for this seat’s pesos, hours, and start date, the brief is still unfinished.