Perpetuating the boundary system | The Manila Times
www.manilatimes.net › 2019/12/14 › businessDec 14, 2019 · THE term “boundary system” has come to mean the system of incentives based on the revenue or ridership offered to bus or jeepney drivers by owners of public utility vehicles (PUV). It started out as the daily rental payment the driver gives to the owner for the right to use the PUV and collect fares. Once the driver has gathered enough money to pay for the rental, he gets to keep the additional revenue collected.
Boundary System - BATASnatin.com
batasnatin.com › 2228-boundary-systemNov 04, 1993 · The relationship between jeepney owners/operators on one hand and jeepney drivers on the other under the boundary system is that of employer-employee and not of lessor-lessee. (Martinez v. NLRC, G.R. No. 117495, May 29, 1997). The features which characterize, the "boundary system" – namely, the fact that the driver does not receive a fixed wage but gets only the excess of the amount of fares collected by him over the amount he pays to the jeep- owner, and that the gasoline consumed by the ...
Give jeepney drivers fixed salaries, scrap 'boundary' system ...
news.abs-cbn.com › business › 08/27/20Aug 27, 2020 · MAP said scrapping the boundary system and giving fixed salaries to jeepney drivers will "eliminate disorderly competition for passengers and restore some order in our streets." "Such a system will also facilitate registration of drivers with government agencies (SSS, PhilHealth, PagIBIG, BIR) and will facilitate access to benefits and tax collection, forcing facets of the underground economy to surface," MAP said.