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Hiring remotely

Hire in the Philippines, without setting up there.

Hiring someone overseas yourself is allowed. The rules that come with them are the catch.

What the rules look at

The contract says contractor. The law looks at the work.

Set hours and daily direction

If you set their hours and direct their day, they can count as your employee.

Your equipment and systems

Supplying the laptop and logins is one of the signs that gets weighed.

Employer duties over there

Employers there cover SSS, PhilHealth, Pag-IBIG, tax and 13th month pay.

It has happened here

In 2024 the Fair Work Commission found that a contractor working from the Philippines for an Australian business was really an employee, and in 2025 it awarded her compensation.

Pascua v Doessel Group, [2024] FWC 2669 and [2025] FWC 1833

Two ways to do it

Set it up yourself, or let us carry the setup.

Doing it yourself

  • Learn another country's employer rules
  • Set up a local company, or pay an employer of record
  • Run pay and payments across borders
  • Carry the risk if the arrangement is read as employment

With StaffBridge

  • Your agreement is with an Australian company
  • No Philippine company for you to set up
  • We engage and pay your person in the Philippines
  • One monthly invoice, in AUD

How it is set up

One agreement, one invoice, in Australia.

1

Australia

Your business

You tell us the role and the hours.

2

Australia

StaffBridge

Your agreement and your invoice, with an Australian company.

3

Philippines

Your person

Engaged and paid by us, working your hours.

Questions

Straight answers.

General information, not legal or tax advice.

No. Australian law does not ban it. The catch is how the arrangement is classified, and the employer duties that sit with whoever engages the person.

Not if you hire through StaffBridge. You contract with us in Australia. We engage the person over there.

We do, in local currency, on local pay cycles, with statutory cover included. You get one monthly invoice in AUD.

No arrangement removes every risk. What we remove is the need for you to set up, employ and pay in the Philippines yourself.

Get started

Tell us the role.

We find the person, so you can get on with running the business.

Book a 30 minute call

Or email hello@staffbridge.com.au