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Hiring offshore

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

Read the decision

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 StaffBridge Pty Ltd, 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. 1 AustraliaYour businessYou tell us the role and the hours.
  2. 2 AustraliaStaffBridge Pty LtdYour agreement and your invoice, with an Australian company.
  3. 3 PhilippinesYour personEngaged and paid by us, working your hours.

Questions

Straight answers.

General information, not legal or tax advice.

No. Plenty of businesses do it. The risk is in how the arrangement runs day to day, and in the employer duties that can come with it.

Not with us. Your agreement is with StaffBridge Pty Ltd, an Australian company.

We do. You pay one monthly invoice, in AUD.

No arrangement removes every risk, and we will not pretend otherwise. What it does is put the setup, the engagement and the pay with us instead of you.

Get started

Tell us the role.

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

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Or email hello@staffbridge.com.au