Types of Employment in the Philippines a. Project Employment Where the employment has been fixed for a specific project or undertaking, the completion or termination of which has been determined at the time of the engagement of the employee in the Philippines. A project employee or a member of a work pool may acquire the status of a regular employee when the following concur: (1) The project employee is continuously rehired even after a project has ended; and (2) The alleged project employee performs tasks are vital, necessary, and indispensable to the usual business or trade of the employer. b. Seasonal Employment Where the work or services to be performed is seasonal in nature and the employment is for the duration of the season in the Philippines. c. Casual Employment Where the employment is not covered by the foregoing, provided that an employee who has rendered at least one year of service, whether continuous or broken, shall be considered regular with respect to the activity in which he or she is employed and his or her employment shall continue while the activity exists. d. Term or Fixed Employment - Duration of employment is agreed upon by the parties Another category of employment in the Philippines recognized in jurisprudence is “term” or “fixed-period employment.” This is based on Art. 1193 of the CC, which states that obligations with a resolutory period take effect at once, but terminate upon arrival of the day certain – understood to be a day that must necessarily come. The decisive determinant in “term employment” should not be the activities that the employee is called upon to perform, but the day certain agreed upon by the parties for the commencement and termination of the employment relationship. Stipulations in employment contracts providing for “term employment” or “fixed-period employment” are valid when the period has been agreed upon knowingly and voluntarily by the parties, without force, duress or improper pressure exerted on the employee, and when such stipulations were not designed to circumvent the laws on security of tenure. Fixed-term employment is valid when: Jesile Aquino For Philseoul Inc.