Project employment

How it works

Name the project and the end condition. When the project ends, the employment can end. When you keep them on the next ‘project’ that is really the same queue, you are building regularization facts. 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: hire a developer for Migration v2, end date when v2 ships, written. Starting v3 the next Monday without a new honest term is a continuity story.

How it differs

True independent contractor is not an employee. Fixed-term is a date. Casual is intermittency.

Common errors

Relabeling the inbox as Project Phoenix every five months.

In practice

Treat Project employment 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 project 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.