Philippine labor compliance, workforce strategy, and operational frameworks — written for the companies actually building teams here.
Most companies making their first Philippine hire spend three months researching entity setup, then discover they can't get their first worker legally employed…
Opening a Philippine legal entity takes, conservatively, four to six months and $12,000–$20,000 in legal and registration fees — before a single employment con…
A DOLE illegal dismissal complaint names your company as principal employer. Your staffing agency swears the workers are theirs. Your Philippine labor counsel…
Opening a Philippine entity takes 4–6 months. An EOR contract delivers an employment agreement in 72 hours. That gap is not a minor scheduling inconvenience —…
Deel charges $599/month per employee for Philippines EOR. Splace charges $249. That $350 gap is real — but almost every VP of Ops who asks about it is comparin…
There is no Philippine law that requires you to open a subsidiary at 50 employees. None. The "50-hire rule" is a cost-of-EOR math heuristic that got repeated e…
At 50 Filipino employees on an EOR, you're writing a check for roughly $149,400 a year — just in employer-of-record fees. Most operators know the monthly numbe…
A DOLE labor inspector does not ask to see your agency contract first. They ask for the employment records of every worker on site — schedules, timesheets, too…
Setting up a Philippine entity for a 15-person ops team costs between $15,000 and $30,000 in legal fees, takes four to six months, and leaves you with SEC fili…
A foreign company cannot legally use a PEO in the Philippines without first owning a Philippine legal entity. That single prerequisite eliminates PEO as an opt…
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