Fred Pamaos

The entrepreneur who starts a small business is almost always an owner-employee, performing the tasks of that business in addition to managing the business itself. A webpage creator or a software programmer who starts out his own business does the programming and, in addition, does the marketing and management of the business. continue reading…

Job contracting now appears to be the workplace trend. While job contracting has its positive aspects, the explanatory note of a House Bill asserts that workers hired by agencies through the job contracting scheme are the most underpaid, neglected and oppressed among the country’s labor force. Regardless of the veracity of this assertion, let’s discuss the basic concepts in labor-only contracting and independent job contracting. continue reading…