All other monetary awards are hereby deleted. They deny that they abandoned their work. The petition is meritorious. Both classes of workers are paid per unit accomplished. Piece-rate payment is generally practiced in garment factories where work is done in the company premises, while payment on pakyao and takay basis is commonly observed in the agricultural industry, such as in sugar plantations where the work is performed in bulk or in volumes difficult to quantify.
Petitioners belong to the first category, i.e., supervised employees.
Of these elements, the most important criterion is whether the employer controls or has reserved the right to control the employee not only as to the result of the work but also as to the means and methods by which the result is to be accomplished. In this case, private respondents exercised control over the work of petitioners. The mere fact that they were paid on a piece-rate basis does not negate their status as regular employees of private respondents. 97 of the Labor Code as remuneration or earnings, capable of being expressed in terms of money whether fixed or ascertained on a time, task, piece or commission basis. Payment by the piece is just a method of compensation and does not define the essence of the relations.