Short answer. Generally no. The Labor Code requires wages to be paid at or near the place of work, except as otherwise provided by regulations the Secretary of Labor and Employment may prescribe to give wages greater protection. Making you travel far to collect your pay does not fit the ordinary rule this article sets.
What the law says
Payment of wages shall be made at or near the place of undertaking, except as otherwise provided by such regulations as the Secretary of Labor and Employment may prescribe under conditions to ensure greater protection of wages.
Labor Code, Article 104 — Place Of Payment. Read the full provision →
The default location the article sets
Article 104 states the general rule directly: payment of wages shall be made at or near the place of undertaking. "Place of undertaking" refers to where the work itself is carried out. The article's baseline expectation is that you should not have to travel a significant distance from your workplace just to receive wages you already earned there, since the whole point of the rule is convenience for the worker collecting pay.
The exception is narrow and specific
The article allows a departure from that rule only as otherwise provided by such regulations as the Secretary of Labor and Employment may prescribe, and only under conditions to ensure greater protection of wages. This is not a general license for an employer to choose any payment location it prefers — the exception is tied to a specific source, regulations issued by the Secretary of Labor and Employment, and a specific purpose, protecting wages more, not less.
What this article does not detail
Article 104 does not itself list what those Secretary-issued regulations say, or when they might permit payment away from the place of work. Without pointing to a specific regulation that authorizes it, an arrangement requiring you to claim pay far from your workplace does not match the rule this article states as the default, since the article frames the near-the-workplace requirement as the norm and any departure as something that needs its own regulatory basis.
What to check
If you are being required to travel to collect your pay, it is worth asking your employer what specific basis they are relying on for departing from the at-or-near-the-workplace rule. Article 104's own text puts the burden on there being a recognized exception, rather than on the employee to accept an inconvenient payment arrangement without one. If no such regulation is identified, the arrangement does not fit within what this article permits.
A neighboring rule follows the same pattern
The Labor Code's default on who receives the wage follows a similarly narrow structure: wages are to be paid directly to the worker they are due to, with payment through another person allowed only in cases of force majeure or other special circumstances defined by regulation, on the worker's own written authority, or where the worker has died and the wages go to the heirs instead. Both this rule and the place-of-payment rule share the same shape — a firm default protecting the worker, opened only by a specific, recognized exception rather than employer convenience.