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NovaStaff Recruitment, LLC (NSR) enters into a contract with Apex World Overseas (AWO) designating NSR as an independent contractor to handle overseas recruitment for AWO’s employer clients. AWO publicly brands NSR as its recruitment partner and allows NSR to hold information sessions and to issue job offers in NSR’s name, with all placements for AWO’s overseas postings. An applicant, Kai Mendoza, applies through NSR and pays 25,000 PHP for processing. Kai is deployed to Oman on a job offer that misstates salary and benefits. She files illegal recruitment charges against NSR; AWO denies liability, contending NSR is an independent contractor. Determine (a) the governing doctrine that would determine whether AWO is bound by NSR’s recruitment acts; (b) the applicable test distinguishing actual authority, apparent authority, and agency by estoppel; and (c) whether AWO may be held liable for illegal recruitment and misrepresentations, and what remedies Kai may pursue.

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Apparent authority alone binds the principal in this setting; branding AW as NSR’s partner and permitting it to act in NSR’s name suffices to bind AW even without any actual authority. Agency relationship doctrine under Philippine law—encompassing actual authority, apparent authority, and agency by estoppel—binds the principal to the recruitment acts of its agent when the agent acts in the principal’s name; because AW publicly brands NSR as its recruitment partner and allows it to hold information sessions and issue offers in NSR’s name, AW is bound by NSR’s recruitment acts through apparent authority and agency by estoppel. Agency by estoppel arises only when the third party is misled by the principal’s representations; branding alone does not create estoppel unless the third party relies on it. Respondeat superior (master–servant) liability governs the principal’s liability for acts of its agents; since NSR is described as an independent contractor, AW would not be liable for NSR’s recruitment acts.

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