Informal Employment in the Philippines: Who Counts as an Informal Worker and Which Labor Rights Still Apply
Not every informal job is unprotected under Philippine law. This guide explains when boundary-system driving, home-based subcontracting, and app-based gig work are still legally an employment relationship, when a worker is genuinely self-employed instead, and what both groups can still claim under SSS, PhilHealth, and Pag-IBIG law.