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Agent of Record

  • Writer: Connie Barrientos-Carey
    Connie Barrientos-Carey
  • Jun 1
  • 1 min read

Most foreign companies engaging Philippine contractors are exposed and don't know it. No compliant contract. No BIR withholding documentation. No understanding of the regularisation doctrine — the legal principle that can reclassify your freelancer as a permanent employee after six months of integrated work.



AOR — Agent of Record — is the structure that fixes this.


One line: AOR is for contractors. EOR is for employees. Everything else is detail.



What an AOR actually does: drafts a contractor agreement that survives a misclassification challenge, handles professional fee withholding and BIR Form 2307 issuance, verifies the contractor's compliance setup, and absorbs the misclassification risk. If the contractor ever files an illegal-dismissal case at the NLRC, the exposure sits with the AOR — not you.



Global platforms don't do this. They handle payment rails. They don't show up at the NLRC.



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