Risk in Poorly Crafted Project Employment Contract
When the employer claims that an employee is on project employment basis, it has the burden of proving the validity of such arrangement. Failure to do so shall render the employment regular. For instance, in the case of Inocentes vs. R. Syjuco Construction, Inc., (July 29, 2019, G.R. No. 237020) where the employer failed to discharge the burden to prove that the employees were project employees, the NLRC properly found them to be regular employees. It thus follows that as regular [...]