A Review of Policy Options and Scenarios on Philippine Platform Work

While the Fairwork methodology primarily directs the search for accountability to the platforms, the results of the Fairwork Report also reflect on the importance placed by the government, or the lack thereof, in ensuring that platform workers have decent work or fair work. [...] The four-fold test requires the concurrence of the following factors: (i) power of selection and engagement; (ii) payment of wages; (iii) power of dismissal; and (iv) power of control of the employer 7 over the results as well as the means and methods of how the work is done. [...] The platform must satisfy ALL of the following: • The party contracting with the worker must be identified in the contract, and subject to the law of the place in which the worker works. [...] National Labor Relations Commission, enumerates the such factors as follows: “Thus, the determination of the relationship between employer and employee depends upon the circumstances of the whole economic activity, such as: (1) the extent to which the services performed are an integral part of the employer's business; (2) the extent of the worker's investment in equipment and facilities; (3) the n. [...] 7192 recognize exceptions from the prohibited cancellation of confirmed orders, such as when the customer uses credit card services as a mode of reimbursement and payment, which will still be credited to the platform notwithstanding the cancellation; the customer remits to the platform any such reimbursement and payment as a pre-condition for the cancellation of the order; the delivery will be or.