Endo

How it works

Five-month contractor loops, ‘project’ labels on a permanent queue, and casual stamps on daily work are the remote versions. The name comes from agency floors. The idea travels. For a U.S. company hiring one Filipino teammate, write this into the brief, the employment contract, and the peso payroll file before the start date. Slack habits do not override the Labor Code, BIR, or NPC. If the local employer of record holds the paper, they run the statutory step; you still owe a clean operating definition so the seat does not fail in week three. Put a number on the example when you budget loaded cost, because a nameless allowance always returns as a December surprise or a missed SLA.

Example: four successive 5-month ‘projects’ on the same inbox, same founder, same login. A tenure case will not be impressed.

How it differs

Fixed-term and project are lawful when real. Labor-only contracting is the vendor version of the dodge.

Common errors

Believing a new PDF date resets Article 296.

In practice

Treat Endo as a week-one operating object. Ask who signs the notice, who remits, and who would answer DOLE. If three vendors each point at the other, you have a story rather than a file. 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 endo 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.