Who is the right beneficiary?

[j_avonni]

Labor contractor? Baka naman independent contractor, because labor-only contracting is prohibited. In the latter case, your company will be deemed as the employer of the deceased.

If this is an employee of a legitimate job contractor and your company is only giving financial assistance to the family of the deceased who is not your employee, it doesn't matter who the legal beneficiary is as long as you can identify one of his heirs. This is merely a humanitarian gesture on the part of the company.

It's independent contractor. Actually, we would give the assistance to the victim's mother since he was single. However, we learned about the live-in partner and his child. So, we have second thought of giving the money to the mother.