Short answer. Yes. Article 107 of the Labor Code applies the same liability rules from Article 106 to an indirect employer — any person or entity that contracts with an independent contractor for work — even without a direct contract between you and that indirect employer. The absence of a signed agreement between you does not remove the liability.
What the law says
Indirect employer. 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.
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Article 107 extends the preceding rule by definition, not by contract
Article 107 is short but does real work: it takes the provisions of the immediately preceding article — Article 106, governing contractors and subcontractors — and applies them likewise 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. Liability here flows from that party's role in the contracting arrangement, not from a signed agreement between the indirect employer and you personally.
"Not being an employer" is the key qualifier
The article specifically describes the indirect employer as someone not being an employer — meaning this party is not your direct employer, and typically has no employment relationship with you at all. What makes them the indirect employer under this article is simply that they contracted with the independent contractor for work, not that they entered into any arrangement with the workers that contractor supplies.
It covers a broad range of entities
The article's list of who can be an indirect employer is deliberately wide — any person, partnership, association or corporation. It is not limited to businesses in a particular industry or to a specific contractual structure. What matters is the functional role: the entity contracted with the independent contractor for the performance of any work, task, job or project, which is enough to bring it within this provision.
What this means for pursuing a claim
Because Article 107 works by incorporating Article 106's provisions rather than restating them, establishing your claim means showing the same underlying facts Article 106 requires — the existence of the contracting arrangement, and the work performed under it — while identifying the party you are dealing with as the one that contracted with your actual employer, the independent contractor, for the project you worked on. That relationship, not a direct signature between you and that entity, is what this article makes relevant to the claim.