Short answer. Yes, potentially. A company that is not your direct employer but contracts with an independent contractor for work, a task, a job, or a project is treated as an indirect employer, and the same rules that apply to the article immediately before this one apply to that company as well.
What the law says
The provisions of the immediately preceding article shall likewise apply to any person, partnership, association or corporation which, not being an employer, contracts with an independent contractor for the performance of any work, task, job or project.
Labor Code, Article 107 — Indirect Employer. Read the full provision →
Not your employer, but still covered by the same rules
This article addresses a specific gap: what happens when the entity you are actually working for is "not being an employer" in the direct sense, but has contracted with an independent contractor for work you end up performing. The article's answer is that such a person, partnership, association, or corporation is still pulled into "the provisions of the immediately preceding article," the same rules that would otherwise apply only to a direct employer dealing with a contractor or subcontractor.
What counts as the triggering arrangement
The article is broad about the kind of entity this can apply to — a person, partnership, association, or corporation — and broad about the kind of work involved, covering "any work, task, job or project." What matters is that the company contracted with an independent contractor to get that work done, rather than hiring the workers who perform it directly. If you were assigned to a company through a job contractor rather than hired by that company outright, this is the fact pattern the article is describing.
Why the label "indirect employer" carries real consequences
The article's title, Indirect Employer, signals that this is not just descriptive language — it triggers actual legal obligations, specifically the same ones set out in the preceding article governing contractor and subcontractor arrangements. Because this article works by cross-reference rather than restating those obligations here, understanding what you are specifically entitled to from the company you were assigned to requires reading this article together with the one immediately before it, not in isolation.
What this means if you were placed through a contractor
If a job contractor placed you with a client company, this article gives that client company a defined legal status, indirect employer, rather than leaving it as an unregulated bystander to your working arrangement. That status matters most in situations involving unpaid wages or benefits owed by the contractor, since the same protections built into the preceding article's rules on contractor relationships extend to this indirect-employer arrangement as well.