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https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-nine/part-i/chapter-9/190/
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 9 - Payment of Wages; Discharge Without Cause; Mechanic’s Lien (§§ 171 — 194b)›§ 190 - Mechanic’s lien—Costs of action
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 9 - Payment of Wages; Discharge Without Cause; Mechanic’s Lien (§§ 171 — 194b) › § 190 - Mechanic’s lien—Costs of action
If judgment in an action brought for the enforcement of the provisions of §§ 186—191 of this title is rendered against the owner or grantee of any work, costs may be taxed on him, attorney’s fees included. History —May 4, 1931, No. 73, p. 458, § 5, eff. 90 days after May 4, 1931.
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-nine/part-i/chapter-9/191/
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 9 - Payment of Wages; Discharge Without Cause; Mechanic’s Lien (§§ 171 — 194b)›§ 191 - Mechanic’s lien—Judgment and execution
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 9 - Payment of Wages; Discharge Without Cause; Mechanic’s Lien (§§ 171 — 194b) › § 191 - Mechanic’s lien—Judgment and execution
A judgment upholding the claim shall state that the lien is legally constituted and shall direct payment within the five (5) days following the date on which said judgment becomes final; Provided, That upon the expiration of said period, it may be made effective on the encumbered property through an order of execution ...
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-nine/part-i/chapter-9/193/
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 9 - Payment of Wages; Discharge Without Cause; Mechanic’s Lien (§§ 171 — 194b)›§ 193 - Employees summoned as witnesses in criminal cases—Dedu...
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 9 - Payment of Wages; Discharge Without Cause; Mechanic’s Lien (§§ 171 — 194b) › § 193 - Employees summoned as witnesses in criminal cases—Deduction from salary or leave prohibited
Every employer is hereby prohibited from deducting from the salary or from vacation or sick leave of their employees, the days and hours that an employee, duly summoned by the prosecutor or a court, must use when appearing as a witness in a criminal case. This prohibition shall likewise apply to summons as witnesses in...
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-nine/part-i/chapter-9/193a/
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 9 - Payment of Wages; Discharge Without Cause; Mechanic’s Lien (§§ 171 — 194b)›§ 193a - Employees summoned as witnesses in criminal cases—Cer...
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 9 - Payment of Wages; Discharge Without Cause; Mechanic’s Lien (§§ 171 — 194b) › § 193a - Employees summoned as witnesses in criminal cases—Certificate from the court
Once the appearance of the witness has concluded, the Prosecuting Attorney for Minors or the Clerk of the Court shall issue a certificate to him/her in which the time he/she had to devote to his/her appearance in days and hours is clearly stated. In cases under §§ 2201 et seq. of Title 34, the name of the accused minor...
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-nine/part-i/chapter-9/193b/
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 9 - Payment of Wages; Discharge Without Cause; Mechanic’s Lien (§§ 171 — 194b)›§ 193b - Employees summoned as witnesses in criminal cases—Not...
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 9 - Payment of Wages; Discharge Without Cause; Mechanic’s Lien (§§ 171 — 194b) › § 193b - Employees summoned as witnesses in criminal cases—Notice to employer
To be entitled to the protection granted by §§ 193—193c of this title, the employee shall notify his employer within a reasonable time of his need to be absent from work to attend to a summons and, once he returns to work, he shall deliver the certificate established in § 193a of this title to his employer. The employe...
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-nine/part-i/chapter-9/193c/
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 9 - Payment of Wages; Discharge Without Cause; Mechanic’s Lien (§§ 171 — 194b)›§ 193c - Employees summoned as witnesses in criminal cases—Ill...
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 9 - Payment of Wages; Discharge Without Cause; Mechanic’s Lien (§§ 171 — 194b) › § 193c - Employees summoned as witnesses in criminal cases—Illegal deduction; penalties
Every employee who having complied with the requirements of §§ 193—193c of this title has any amount whatsoever illegally deducted from his salary or from his vacation or sick leave shall have the right to collect, through civil action filed by him or by the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources in his name, the diffe...
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-nine/part-i/chapter-9/194/
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 9 - Payment of Wages; Discharge Without Cause; Mechanic’s Lien (§§ 171 — 194b)›§ 194 - Discrimination at place of employment for sharing test...
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 9 - Payment of Wages; Discharge Without Cause; Mechanic’s Lien (§§ 171 — 194b) › § 194 - Discrimination at place of employment for sharing testimony; cause for action—Definitions
(a) Employee.— Means any person who provides services in exchange for salaries, or any type of remuneration, through an oral, written, explicit or implicit contract. (b) Employer.— Means any person who has one or more employees. That includes the employer’s agents. (c) Person.— Means individual, society, corporation, a...
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-nine/part-i/chapter-9/194a/
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 9 - Payment of Wages; Discharge Without Cause; Mechanic’s Lien (§§ 171 — 194b)›§ 194a - Discrimination at place of employment for sharing tes...
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 9 - Payment of Wages; Discharge Without Cause; Mechanic’s Lien (§§ 171 — 194b) › § 194a - Discrimination at place of employment for sharing testimony; cause for action—Prohibition; violation;...
(a) No employer may discharge, threaten, or discriminate against an employee regarding the terms, conditions, compensation, location, benefits or privileges of the employment should the employee offer or attempt to offer, verbally or in writing, any testimony, expression or information before a legislative, administrat...
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-nine/part-i/chapter-9/194b/
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 9 - Payment of Wages; Discharge Without Cause; Mechanic’s Lien (§§ 171 — 194b)›§ 194b - Discrimination at place of employment for sharing tes...
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 9 - Payment of Wages; Discharge Without Cause; Mechanic’s Lien (§§ 171 — 194b) › § 194b - Discrimination at place of employment for sharing testimony; cause for action—Violation; criminal lia...
Any employer who violates any of the provisions of §§ 194 et seq. shall incur a felony and where he/she to be convicted, he/she shall be sanctioned with a fine of not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000) nor more than five thousand dollars ($5,000) and/or incarceration for a fixed term of three years. Should aggrava...
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-nine/part-i/chapter-10/195/
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 10 - Construction Workers (§§ 195 — 206)›§ 195 - Payment bond
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 10 - Construction Workers (§§ 195 — 206) › § 195 - Payment bond
Any contractor in charge of the construction, reconstruction, extension, modification or repair of a work, building or structure whose estimated cost as specified in the construction permit issued by the Permit Office of the Planning Board is greater than fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) shall post a payment bond in ...
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-nine/part-i/chapter-10/196/
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 10 - Construction Workers (§§ 195 — 206)›§ 196 - Forms of bond
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 10 - Construction Workers (§§ 195 — 206) › § 196 - Forms of bond
The above-mentioned bond shall be posted by the contractor in cash, certified check or with the security of a bonding company licensed to do business in Puerto Rico, and said payment bond shall answer jointly and severally with the contractor, up to the limit of the bond liability, for the payment to the contractor’s l...
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-nine/part-i/chapter-10/197/
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 10 - Construction Workers (§§ 195 — 206)›§ 197 - Payment of wages
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 10 - Construction Workers (§§ 195 — 206) › § 197 - Payment of wages
(a) It shall be the duty of the contractor to pay weekly and in cash all the wages of the laborers employed in the work under construction. (b) The salaries earned by the workers employed in the work shall enjoy absolute preference, as to payment, over all other debts of the contractor, with the exception of mortgage c...
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-nine/part-i/chapter-10/198/
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 10 - Construction Workers (§§ 195 — 206)›§ 198 - Defect in bond
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 10 - Construction Workers (§§ 195 — 206) › § 198 - Defect in bond
No technical defect in the bond, including, but without limitation, that it has not been attached to the contract, shall have the effect of altering the liability established by this chapter. History —June 22, 1961, No. 111, p. 223, § 7, eff. 90 days after June 22, 1961.
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-nine/part-i/chapter-10/199/
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 10 - Construction Workers (§§ 195 — 206)›§ 199 - Pleading
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 10 - Construction Workers (§§ 195 — 206) › § 199 - Pleading
It shall not be necessary in any judicial action brought under this chapter to accompany the complaint with a copy of the contract or subcontract for the work, it being sufficient for its identification to make in the complaint reference to the contract or subcontract. History —June 22, 1961, No. 111, p. 223, § 8, eff....
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-nine/part-i/chapter-10/200/
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 10 - Construction Workers (§§ 195 — 206)›§ 200 - Duration of chose in action and bond
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 10 - Construction Workers (§§ 195 — 206) › § 200 - Duration of chose in action and bond
The chose in action authorized by this chapter against the bond and the sureties of the contractor shall be understood as lapsed one year after the work and all labor thereon have been completed. Upon expiration of said term the bond may be cancelled, unless there is pending any judicial action under this chapter. In s...
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-nine/part-i/chapter-10/201/
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 10 - Construction Workers (§§ 195 — 206)›§ 201 - Filing of action
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 10 - Construction Workers (§§ 195 — 206) › § 201 - Filing of action
All actions under this chapter shall be brought in the name of the person or persons in interest, but the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources may also demand, motu proprio or at the instance of one or more workers with interest in the matter, and in representation and for the benefit of one or more of such workers w...
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-nine/part-i/chapter-10/202/
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 10 - Construction Workers (§§ 195 — 206)›§ 202 - Subcontracts
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 10 - Construction Workers (§§ 195 — 206) › § 202 - Subcontracts
When the contractor of a work under construction subcontracts any part or labor to be performed therein, he shall file with the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources a copy of the subcontract executed with the subcontractor not later than ten (10) days after its execution. The contractor shall have this same duty if t...
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-nine/part-i/chapter-10/203/
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 10 - Construction Workers (§§ 195 — 206)›§ 203 - Definitions
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 10 - Construction Workers (§§ 195 — 206) › § 203 - Definitions
The following phrases and words as used in this chapter shall have the meanings expressed below: Contractor.— Includes any person or persons in charge, through an express or tacit contract, of the construction, reconstruction, modification, extension, repair or improvement of buildings, works or structures. The term “b...
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-nine/part-i/chapter-10/204/
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 10 - Construction Workers (§§ 195 — 206)›§ 204 - Injunctions
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 10 - Construction Workers (§§ 195 — 206) › § 204 - Injunctions
If a contractor or subcontractor starts labor in a construction work with laborers without the contractor’s having first posted the bond required by this chapter to insure to said laborers the payment of their wages, or without his having complied with any of the other requirements established in this chapter, the Secr...
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-nine/part-i/chapter-10/205/
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 10 - Construction Workers (§§ 195 — 206)›§ 205 - Posting of public notice
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 10 - Construction Workers (§§ 195 — 206) › § 205 - Posting of public notice
In every construction project where the contractor or subcontractor performs activities through contracts or subcontracts with any natural or [juridical] person, it shall be the duty of said contractor or subcontractor to post a public notice at the payment sites accepted by the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources f...
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-nine/part-i/chapter-10/206/
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 10 - Construction Workers (§§ 195 — 206)›§ 206 - Penalties
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 10 - Construction Workers (§§ 195 — 206) › § 206 - Penalties
Any contractor who starts a work, building or construction without having posted the bond required by this chapter in behalf of the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000) nor more than five thousan...
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-nine/part-i/chapter-11/247/
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 11 - Minimum Wages (§§ 211-241 — 247)›§ 247 - Vested rights
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 11 - Minimum Wages (§§ 211-241 — 247) › § 247 - Vested rights
Neither the minimum wage nor the vacation or sick leave accrual rate of any employee shall be reduced as of the effective date of this act, is entitled by virtue of a mandatory decree, to a minimum wage or an accrual rate of either leave, greater than what is provided in Act June 26, 1956, No. 96. Nor shall said employ...
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-nine/part-i/chapter-11a/250/
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 11A - Puerto Rico Minimum Wage, Vacation and Sick Leave Act (§§ 250 — 250j)›§ 250 - Federal minimum wage
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 11A - Puerto Rico Minimum Wage, Vacation and Sick Leave Act (§§ 250 — 250j) › § 250 - Federal minimum wage
The federal minimum wage fixed by the Fair Labor Standards Act approved by the Congress of the United States of America on June 25, 1938, as it has subsequently been amended, shall automatically apply to the workers in Puerto Rico covered by the federal act. Upon applying the federal minimum wage, the provisions in fed...
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-nine/part-i/chapter-11a/250a/
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 11A - Puerto Rico Minimum Wage, Vacation and Sick Leave Act (§§ 250 — 250j)›§ 250a - Protection for local enterprises not covered by the fede...
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 11A - Puerto Rico Minimum Wage, Vacation and Sick Leave Act (§§ 250 — 250j) › § 250a - Protection for local enterprises not covered by the federal statute
Those enterprises or activities that do not meet the criteria of the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act, and are therefore exempted from the federal minimum wage, shall pay a minimum wage equivalent to seventy percent (70%) of the prevailing minimum wage. Every other phase of federal legislation and regulations regarding...
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-nine/part-i/chapter-11a/250b/
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 11A - Puerto Rico Minimum Wage, Vacation and Sick Leave Act (§§ 250 — 250j)›§ 250b - Definitions
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 11A - Puerto Rico Minimum Wage, Vacation and Sick Leave Act (§§ 250 — 250j) › § 250b - Definitions
(a) Mandatory decree.— Means a decree passed by the Minimum Wage Board under the provisions of Act No. 96 of June 26, 1956, as amended, or by the Secretary, under this chapter. (b) Department.— Refers to the Department of Labor and Human Resources of Puerto Rico. (c) Employ.— Means to hire, allow or put to work. (d) In...
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-nine/part-i/chapter-11a/250c/
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 11A - Puerto Rico Minimum Wage, Vacation and Sick Leave Act (§§ 250 — 250j)›§ 250c - Industries that provide greater or lesser benefits
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 11A - Puerto Rico Minimum Wage, Vacation and Sick Leave Act (§§ 250 — 250j) › § 250c - Industries that provide greater or lesser benefits
(a) Those industries that on the effective date of this act are paying higher wages under a mandatory decree and are not covered by the federal minimum wage, shall continue to pay them to their workers. However, those industries that are covered by the federal act and are paying wages that are higher than the federal m...
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-nine/part-i/chapter-11a/250d/
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 11A - Puerto Rico Minimum Wage, Vacation and Sick Leave Act (§§ 250 — 250j)›§ 250d - Provisions on vacation and sick leave
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 11A - Puerto Rico Minimum Wage, Vacation and Sick Leave Act (§§ 250 — 250j) › § 250d - Provisions on vacation and sick leave
(a) All workers in Puerto Rico with the exception of those listed in §§ 250a and 250f of this title, shall accrue vacation leave at a rate of one and one quarter (1 1 / 4) days each month, and sick leave at a rate of one day each month. It shall be a requirement for the employee to work no less than one hundred and fif...
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-nine/part-i/chapter-11a/250e/
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 11A - Puerto Rico Minimum Wage, Vacation and Sick Leave Act (§§ 250 — 250j)›§ 250e - Use of uniforms
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 11A - Puerto Rico Minimum Wage, Vacation and Sick Leave Act (§§ 250 — 250j) › § 250e - Use of uniforms
Every employer who requires his/her employees to use a uniform shall have to defray the expense of their acquisition. Under no circumstances shall the employee be required in any way, to contribute directly or indirectly to assume, totally or partially, the expense of acquiring said uniforms. Pursuant to this section, ...
https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/title-twenty-nine/part-i/chapter-11a/250f/
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 11A - Puerto Rico Minimum Wage, Vacation and Sick Leave Act (§§ 250 — 250j)›§ 250f - Persons excluded from this chapter
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 11A - Puerto Rico Minimum Wage, Vacation and Sick Leave Act (§§ 250 — 250j) › § 250f - Persons excluded from this chapter
(a) The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to: (1) Persons employed in domestic service in a family residence, except chauffeurs; (2) persons employed by the Government of the United States of America, the Government of Puerto Rico, except by those agencies or instrumentalities thereof that operate as private b...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 11A - Puerto Rico Minimum Wage, Vacation and Sick Leave Act (§§ 250 — 250j)›§ 250g - Violations; penalties
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 11A - Puerto Rico Minimum Wage, Vacation and Sick Leave Act (§§ 250 — 250j) › § 250g - Violations; penalties
(a) Any person who as an employer, or an administrator, official, agent, employee or person in charge of a firm, partnership or corporation, or of another person or persons, violates or refuses to comply or is reticent in complying with any provision of this chapter, or any decree or regulation adopted by the Minimum W...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 11A - Puerto Rico Minimum Wage, Vacation and Sick Leave Act (§§ 250 — 250j)›§ 250h - Injunction and other proceedings
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 11A - Puerto Rico Minimum Wage, Vacation and Sick Leave Act (§§ 250 — 250j) › § 250h - Injunction and other proceedings
(a) It shall be the duty of the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources or through any of his/her duly authorized employees or agents to ensure compliance of this chapter. To such effects, whenever the Secretary believes that any employer is violating or is going to violate any provision of this chapter, shall file an i...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 11A - Puerto Rico Minimum Wage, Vacation and Sick Leave Act (§§ 250 — 250j)›§ 250i - Claims filed by employees
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 11A - Puerto Rico Minimum Wage, Vacation and Sick Leave Act (§§ 250 — 250j) › § 250i - Claims filed by employees
(a) Any employee or worker who receives compensation for his/her work which is less than that prescribed by this chapter or a collective bargaining agreement or an individual work contract, shall be entitled to collect through a civil suit, the difference owed up to the total amount of the corresponding compensation fo...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 11A - Puerto Rico Minimum Wage, Vacation and Sick Leave Act (§§ 250 — 250j)›§ 250j - Prescriptive term
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 11A - Puerto Rico Minimum Wage, Vacation and Sick Leave Act (§§ 250 — 250j) › § 250j - Prescriptive term
(a) An employee’s suit to claim wages against his/her employer under this chapter or any mandatory decree approved or to be approved pursuant to the provisions of this chapter or under any contract or law, shall prescribe within a term of (3) years. The term for this action to prescribe shall be counted from the time t...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299)›§ 271 - Working hours—Per day and week
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299) › § 271 - Working hours—Per day and week
Eight (8) hours of work constitute the legal workday in Puerto Rico. Forty (40) hours of work constitute a workweek. History —May 15, 1948, No. 379, p. 1254, § 2; July 23, 1974, No. 223, Part 2, p. 161, § 1; July 20, 1995, No. 83, § 1.
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299)›§ 272 - Working hours—Regular hours
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299) › § 272 - Working hours—Regular hours
Regular working hours are eight (8) hours during any workday and forty hours (40) during any workweek. History —May 15, 1948, No. 379, p. 1254, § 3; July 23, 1974, No. 223, Part 2, p. 161, § 2; July 20, 1995, No. 83, § 2.
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299)›§ 273 - Overtime
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299) › § 273 - Overtime
Extra working hours are: (a) The hours that an employee works for his employer in excess of eight (8) hours during any period of twenty-four (24) consecutive hours. (b) The hours that an employee works for his employer in excess of forty during any week, unless the hours worked daily in excess of eight are paid at doub...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299)›§ 273a - Working hours—Flexible work schedule
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299) › § 273a - Working hours—Flexible work schedule
An alternate or optional flexible work schedule may be established solely by agreement between the employee and the employer, which will allow advancing or delaying the hour to begin the workday and the period assigned for meals. Employers shall process with priority those requests submitted by heads of families who ha...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299)›§ 274 - Working hours—Extra wages for extra hours
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299) › § 274 - Working hours—Extra wages for extra hours
Every employer who employs or permits an employee to work during extra hours, shall be bound to pay him for each extra hour a wage rate equal to double the rate agreed upon for regular hours; Provided, however, That every employer in any industry in Puerto Rico covered by the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act ...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299)›§ 275 - Working hours—Construction of labor contracts
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299) › § 275 - Working hours—Construction of labor contracts
In every labor contract in which wages are stipulated by the day, it shall be understood that eight (8) hours constitute a working day, save in those cases where, by custom, nature of the work, provision of law, decree of the Minimum Wage Board, or collective agreement, the maximum working hours are less than eight (8)...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299)›§ 276 - Working hours—Weekly wage as covering regular hours
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299) › § 276 - Working hours—Weekly wage as covering regular hours
If an employee works for a weekly wage, the wage stipulated shall cover solely the payment of the regular working hours during each week. History —May 15, 1948, No. 379, p. 1254, § 7, renumbered as § 8 on July 20, 1995, No. 83, § 5.
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299)›§ 277 - Working hours—Monthly wage as covering regular hours
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299) › § 277 - Working hours—Monthly wage as covering regular hours
If an employee works for a monthly wage, the wage stipulated shall cover solely the payment of the regular working hours during each month. History —May 15, 1948, No. 379, p. 1254, § 8, renumbered as § 9 on July 20, 1995, No. 83, § 5.
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299)›§ 278 - Working hours—Piecework; extra hours
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299) › § 278 - Working hours—Piecework; extra hours
If the contract is on the basis of piecework or any other unit of work, the employee shall be entitled to receive double compensation for the pieces or units made during extra hours. History —May 15, 1948, No. 379, p. 1254, § 9, renumbered as § 10 on July 20, 1995, No. 83, § 5.
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299)›§ 279 - Working hours—Construction and improvement work; extra hours; prescription on claim
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299) › § 279 - Working hours—Construction and improvement work; extra hours; prescription on claim
In building, reconstruction, repair works, or works for the improvement of property, done by the job and in any other work in which contractors, subcontractors, ajustadores, foremen, or any agent or representative of the employer intervenes, the employee shall also be entitled to additional compensation on the basis of...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299)›§ 280 - Working hours—Consolidation of payment for regular and extra hours void
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299) › § 280 - Working hours—Consolidation of payment for regular and extra hours void
No provision of §§ 271—288 of this title shall justify any employer to reduce the wage paid by him during the month of January 1948 for one working day, one working week, or one working month, or to pay to any employee a lower wage than the one paid by him to the same employee as of said date. Any clause or stipulation...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299)›§ 281 - Working hours—Waiver of wages for extra time prohibited
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299) › § 281 - Working hours—Waiver of wages for extra time prohibited
It is hereby declared that the additional compensation on the basis of double time fixed by §§ 271—288 of this title for extra hours of work may not be waived. Any clause or stipulation by virtue of which the employee agrees to waive the payment of the additional compensation for extra hours fixed by §§ 271—288 of this...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299)›§ 282 - Working hours—Claims of employees; damages; compromise; intervention of mediators
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299) › § 282 - Working hours—Claims of employees; damages; compromise; intervention of mediators
Any employee who receives a compensation less than that fixed by §§ 271—288 of this title for regular hours and extra hours of work, or for the period fixed for meals, shall be entitled to recover from his employer, through civil action, the sums unpaid, plus an equal sum as liquidation of damages, in addition to the c...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299)›§ 283 - Working hours—Posting notice of work hours; printed models
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299) › § 283 - Working hours—Posting notice of work hours; printed models
Every employer shall affix in a conspicuous place in the establishment, shop, factory, plantation, office or place of work, as the case may be, a printed notice setting forth the number of working hours required daily from the employees for each day of the week, the time to begin and end work, and the time to begin and...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299)›§ 284 - Working hours—Payrolls made and kept by employer; subject to inspection
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299) › § 284 - Working hours—Payrolls made and kept by employer; subject to inspection
Every employer shall be obliged to make, keep, and preserve the payrolls of the persons employed by him, stating the salaries earned and the regular hours and extra hours worked by each one, and other conditions and practices of employment maintained by him. The payrolls shall be kept in accordance with such reasonable...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299)›§ 285 - Working hours—Occupations subject to law; exceptions
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299) › § 285 - Working hours—Occupations subject to law; exceptions
The provisions of §§ 271—288 of this title shall govern in every commercial, industrial, and agricultural establishment; in every shop, factory, refinery, mill, and plant; in every ranch, property, farm, estate, and plantation; in every public service enterprise; in every profit or nonprofit business, including printin...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299)›§ 286 - Working hours—Regulations by Secretary of Labor and Human Resources
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299) › § 286 - Working hours—Regulations by Secretary of Labor and Human Resources
The Secretary of Labor and Human Resources shall prepare the rules and regulations necessary for the best enforcement of §§ 271—288 of this title. Such rules and regulations shall, after they are approved by the Governor and are duly promulgated, have the force of law. History —May 15, 1948, No. 379, p. 1254, § 17, ren...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299)›§ 287 - Working hours—Penalties
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299) › § 287 - Working hours—Penalties
Every employer who fails to pay the rate of wages stipulated in §§ 271—288 of this title for regular hours or extra hours of work, or who permits, induces, or obliges an employee to waive, to accept, or to agree to waive, the compensation on the basis of double time for extra hours, or who does not keep the payrolls of...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299)›§ 288 - Working hours—Definitions
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299) › § 288 - Working hours—Definitions
The following definitions of words and phrases in §§ 271—288 of this title shall be accepted, unless it is otherwise deduced from the context hereof: (1) Employee.— Includes every employee, workman, day laborer, artisan, laborer, clerk, shop clerk and every person employed for wages, salary, day wages, or any other for...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299)›§ 289 - Permits for employment outside regular hours
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299) › § 289 - Permits for employment outside regular hours
The Secretary of Labor and Human Resources is hereby authorized to grant permits to employers or owners of establishments to employ workmen or employees in the days or hours in which the establishments must remain closed to the public or in night hours during which work by women is forbidden by Act June 21, 1919, No. 7...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299)›§ 290 - Permits for employment outside regular hours—Penalties
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299) › § 290 - Permits for employment outside regular hours—Penalties
Every employer who violates §§ 289 and 290 of this title or any section or provision hereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25) or more than one hundred dollars ($100). For any subsequent violation of §§ 289 and 290 of this title or of any section or prov...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299)›§ 291 - Public works—Hours for laborers
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299) › § 291 - Public works—Hours for laborers
In all public works constructed in Puerto Rico, whether by contract or by administration, where the Commonwealth Government, any municipality of Puerto Rico or any commission or board approved by virtue of law, is an interested party, and where it may be necessary to employ laborers, workingmen or mechanics, these shal...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299)›§ 292 - Public works—Penalties
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299) › § 292 - Public works—Penalties
Any contractor, subcontractor or other person performing any public work of the Commonwealth government or of any municipality of Puerto Rico, violating the provisions of § 291 of this title, shall be deemed guilty of [a] misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined a sum not to exceed twenty-five dollars ($25) or c...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299)›§§ 293, 294 - Repealed. Act Apr. 8, 2011, No. 54, § 1, eff. Apr. 8, 2011
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299) › §§ 293, 294 - Repealed. Act Apr. 8, 2011, No. 54, § 1, eff. Apr. 8, 2011
History —Mar. 12, 1908, p. 170, § 1; Repealed. Act.
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299)›§ 294 - Hours of labor for railroad employees—Penalties [Repealed]
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299) › § 294 - Hours of labor for railroad employees—Penalties [Repealed]
History —Mar. 12, 1908, p. 170, § 2; Repealed. Act.
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299)›§ 295 - One day of rest for every six days
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299) › § 295 - One day of rest for every six days
All employees of any commercial or industrial establishment, enterprise or lucrative or nonlucrative business, including those operated by nonprofit associations or organizations and charitable institutions, not subject to the provisions of former § 2201 of Title 33, relative to the closing to the public, shall be enti...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299)›§ 296 - One day of rest for every six (6) days—Piecework as exempt
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299) › § 296 - One day of rest for every six (6) days—Piecework as exempt
The provisions of §§ 295—299 of this title shall not be applicable to occasional or piecework. History —Apr. 9, 1946, No. 289, p. 682, § 2.
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299)›§ 297 - One day of rest for every six (6) days—Salary deduction prohibited
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299) › § 297 - One day of rest for every six (6) days—Salary deduction prohibited
No employer shall deduct any sum from the salary of any employee for the day of rest established by §§ 295—299 of this title. History —Apr. 9, 1946, No. 289, p. 682, § 3.
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299)›§ 298 - One day of rest for every six (6) days—Double wages for work on day of rest
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299) › § 298 - One day of rest for every six (6) days—Double wages for work on day of rest
Any employer who employs or permits an employee to work on the day of rest established by §§ 295—299 of this title shall be obliged to pay said employee for the hours worked during such day of rest a rate double the salary rate agreed upon for regular working hours. History —Apr. 9, 1946, No. 289, p. 682, § 4.
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299)›§ 299 - One day of rest for every six (6) days—Definition of employee
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 13 - Working Hours and Days (§§ 271 — 299) › § 299 - One day of rest for every six (6) days—Definition of employee
For the purposes of §§ 295—299 of this title, employees shall be understood to mean any employee, laborer, clerk, workman, day laborer or person who works for an employer for a salary, wage, or any other compensation. Employee shall not be understood, however, to mean professionals, executives and administrators. Histo...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 14 - Regulation of Operation of Commercial Establishments (§§ 301 — 312)›§ 301 - Definitions
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 14 - Regulation of Operation of Commercial Establishments (§§ 301 — 312) › § 301 - Definitions
For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated hereinbelow: (a) Day.— Shall mean a period of twenty-four (24) consecutive hours, which begin and end at midnight. (b) Business establishment.— Shall mean any site, store or similar place where any type of business operation or comm...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 14 - Regulation of Operation of Commercial Establishments (§§ 301 — 312)›§ 302 - Full-day closing
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 14 - Regulation of Operation of Commercial Establishments (§§ 301 — 312) › § 302 - Full-day closing
Commercial establishments that operate in hotels, paradores, condo hotels, airports, sea ports, or in zones classified as tourist, old or historical zones, or commercial establishments devoted predominantly to the service or sale of items of tourist interest; establishments that operate in facilities devoted to cultura...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 14 - Regulation of Operation of Commercial Establishments (§§ 301 — 312)›§ 304 - Sunday opening and pay
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 14 - Regulation of Operation of Commercial Establishments (§§ 301 — 312) › § 304 - Sunday opening and pay
Business establishments, except for those mentioned in § 302 of this title, shall remain closed to the public on Sundays from 5:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. only, without being able to perform any kind of work outside of the hours established in this section, except that, at the discretion of the owner, agent, manager or pers...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 14 - Regulation of Operation of Commercial Establishments (§§ 301 — 312)›§ 310 - Penalties
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 14 - Regulation of Operation of Commercial Establishments (§§ 301 — 312) › § 310 - Penalties
All infractions of the provisions of this chapter shall constitute unjust and unfair trade practices or tactics. The Department of Consumer Affairs shall oversee faithful compliance with this chapter, and in terms of open business hour schedules and days, such Department shall impose on violators of this chapter, admin...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 14 - Regulation of Operation of Commercial Establishments (§§ 301 — 312)›§ 312 - Suspension of effectiveness
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 14 - Regulation of Operation of Commercial Establishments (§§ 301 — 312) › § 312 - Suspension of effectiveness
The Governor of Puerto Rico may, through executive order, suspend the effectiveness of § 302 of this title upon the occurrence of special circumstances that alter or threaten to alter the social and/or economic order, such as storms, hurricanes, earthquakes, tidal waves, other meteorological phenomena of great force, f...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 15 - Safety of Workmen (§§ 321 — 358)›§ 346 - Scaffold and ladder regulations
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 15 - Safety of Workmen (§§ 321 — 358) › § 346 - Scaffold and ladder regulations
All kinds of scaffolds, elevators, hoists, platforms, or ladders, or any other mechanical appliance, whether portable or fixed, placed, or constructed by any person, firm, or corporation in this Commonwealth for the purpose of building, repairing, altering, destroying, or painting any house, building, bridge, viaduct, ...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 15 - Safety of Workmen (§§ 321 — 358)›§ 347 - Scaffold and ladder regulations—Notice of use of scaffolds
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 15 - Safety of Workmen (§§ 321 — 358) › § 347 - Scaffold and ladder regulations—Notice of use of scaffolds
Any natural or [juridical] person attempting to carry out in Puerto Rico any work where the construction of scaffolds is necessary shall be required to notify the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources in writing within the first five (5) days after commencing work, indicating the nature of the work to be done, the dat...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 15 - Safety of Workmen (§§ 321 — 358)›§ 348 - Scaffold and ladder regulations—Penalties
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 15 - Safety of Workmen (§§ 321 — 358) › § 348 - Scaffold and ladder regulations—Penalties
Any person, or the administrator, superintendent, foreman, majordomo, or representative of said person who violates §§ 346—348 of this title shall be punished by a minimum fine of twenty-five dollars ($25) or by imprisonment in jail for a maximum term of sixty (60) days. History —May 6, 1936, No. 61, p. 314, § 3, eff. ...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 15 - Safety of Workmen (§§ 321 — 358)›§ 349 - Acquisition of safety models and devices—1949
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 15 - Safety of Workmen (§§ 321 — 358) › § 349 - Acquisition of safety models and devices—1949
The Manager of the State Insurance Fund is hereby authorized to invest, from the reserve funds and surpluses in the State Insurance Fund created by §§ 1—42 of Title 11, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the acquisition or production of safety models and devic...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 15 - Safety of Workmen (§§ 321 — 358)›§ 350 - Acquisition of safety models and devices—1949; purchase or production of models; sale to emp...
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 15 - Safety of Workmen (§§ 321 — 358) › § 350 - Acquisition of safety models and devices—1949; purchase or production of models; sale to employers
For the purposes of §§ 349 and 350 of this title, the Manager of the State Insurance Fund may acquire said models and devices through the firms or dealers selling them, or encourage the preparation and production thereof with the collaboration of the Corporation Prison Industries of Puerto Rico, the School of Industria...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 15 - Safety of Workmen (§§ 321 — 358)›§ 351 - Safety models and devices, acquisition—1959
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 15 - Safety of Workmen (§§ 321 — 358) › § 351 - Safety models and devices, acquisition—1959
The Manager of the State Insurance Fund is hereby authorized to place at the disposal of the Department of Labor and Human Resources, from the reserve and surplus funds of the State Insurance Fund, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purchase or production ...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 15 - Safety of Workmen (§§ 321 — 358)›§ 352 - Safety models and devices, acquisition—1959; purchase or production; sale to employers
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 15 - Safety of Workmen (§§ 321 — 358) › § 352 - Safety models and devices, acquisition—1959; purchase or production; sale to employers
The Department of Labor and Human Resources, through its Labor Accident Prevention Bureau, may acquire said models and devices from firms or dealers selling them, or may encourage the preparation and production thereof with the collaboration of the Prison-Industries Corporation of Puerto Rico, the School of Industrial ...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 15 - Safety of Workmen (§§ 321 — 358)›§ 353 - Maximum authorized loads
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 15 - Safety of Workmen (§§ 321 — 358) › § 353 - Maximum authorized loads
It is hereby prohibited and declared illegal that a human being should lift, transport or bear on his person any kind of a load weighing more than the limits the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources may establish by regulation. History —May 22, 1968, No. 49, p. 81, § 1; June 22, 1975, No. 40, p. 97, § 1.
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 15 - Safety of Workmen (§§ 321 — 358)›§ 354 - Penalties—Generally
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 15 - Safety of Workmen (§§ 321 — 358) › § 354 - Penalties—Generally
Every person allowing, compelling, employing or inducing another person to lift, transport or bear on his person any load weighing more than the limits the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources may establish by regulation, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment in jail ...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 15 - Safety of Workmen (§§ 321 — 358)›§ 355 - Penalties—For employers
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 15 - Safety of Workmen (§§ 321 — 358) › § 355 - Penalties—For employers
Every employer, superintendent, timekeeper or person in any way in charge of any laborer, who may request, permit, compel or induce said laborer to lift, transport or bear on his person any load weighing more than the limits the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources may establish by regulations shall be guilty of a mi...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 15 - Safety of Workmen (§§ 321 — 358)›§ 355a - Penalties—For illegal dismissal or onerous conditions
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 15 - Safety of Workmen (§§ 321 — 358) › § 355a - Penalties—For illegal dismissal or onerous conditions
Every employer who fires, suspends, lowers the wages, demotes or imposes or attempts to impose more onerous working conditions on one of his employees, or who refuses to hire or rehire a person because he refuses to lift, transport or bear on himself any kind of a load weighing more than the maximum limits established ...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 15 - Safety of Workmen (§§ 321 — 358)›§ 356 - Powers of Secretary
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 15 - Safety of Workmen (§§ 321 — 358) › § 356 - Powers of Secretary
The Secretary of Labor and Human Resources is hereby vested with full powers to regulate hereafter everything relative to the matter covered by §§ 353—358 of this title, introducing those other standards that the new scientific advances and medical discoveries may so advise, regulating the authorized maximum weights bo...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 15 - Safety of Workmen (§§ 321 — 358)›§ 357 - Weight-lifting sport
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 15 - Safety of Workmen (§§ 321 — 358) › § 357 - Weight-lifting sport
Sections 353—358 of this title shall not apply to the weight-lifting sport. History —May 22, 1968, No. 49, p. 81, § 5, eff. 90 days after May 22, 1968.
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 15 - Safety of Workmen (§§ 321 — 358)›§ 358 - Safety of laborers regulation
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 15 - Safety of Workmen (§§ 321 — 358) › § 358 - Safety of laborers regulation
Sections 353—358 of this title by no means limit the faculty vested in the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources by other laws to regulate everything relative to the safety of laborers, provided no distinction is made on account of sex. History —May 22, 1968, No. 49, p. 81, § 7; June 22, 1975, No. 40, p. 97, § 6.
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 16 - Occupational Safety and Health (§§ 361 — 362)›§ 361 - Short title
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 16 - Occupational Safety and Health (§§ 361 — 362) › § 361 - Short title
Sections 361—361aa are hereby designated as the “Occupational Safety and Health Act” by which name it shall be cited. History —Aug. 5, 1975, No. 16, p. 605, § 1; June 24, 1977, No. 116, p. 295, § 1.
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 16 - Occupational Safety and Health (§§ 361 — 362)›§ 361a - Statement of purposes
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 16 - Occupational Safety and Health (§§ 361 — 362) › § 361a - Statement of purposes
The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in Article II of its Bill of Rights guarantees that each employee shall be entitled to be protected against health and personal hazards in his work or employment. (a) The Legislature of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico declares it to be its purpose and policy, through ...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 16 - Occupational Safety and Health (§§ 361 — 362)›§ 361b - Definitions
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 16 - Occupational Safety and Health (§§ 361 — 362) › § 361b - Definitions
The following terms as they appear used in §§ 361—361aa of this title shall be construed as follows: (a) Place of employment.— Means and includes every place, whether in or out of doors, or underground and urban or rural lands appurtenant thereto, including any common areas of multiple dwellings, residential buildings ...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 16 - Occupational Safety and Health (§§ 361 — 362)›§ 361c - Applicability
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 16 - Occupational Safety and Health (§§ 361 — 362) › § 361c - Applicability
Sections 361—361aa of this title shall apply to every employment performed in any workplace in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. History —Aug. 5, 1975, No. 16, p. 605, § 4.
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 16 - Occupational Safety and Health (§§ 361 — 362)›§ 361d - Power to contract with the Government
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 16 - Occupational Safety and Health (§§ 361 — 362) › § 361d - Power to contract with the Government
The Secretary of Labor and Human Resources shall have the power and authority to enter into such agreements or contracts, including bargaining and grants arrangements, with the Federal Secretary of Labor and Human Resources and other agencies of the United States and of the different states of the United States, as wel...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 16 - Occupational Safety and Health (§§ 361 — 362)›§ 361e - Duties of employers, employees and owners
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 16 - Occupational Safety and Health (§§ 361 — 362) › § 361e - Duties of employers, employees and owners
(a) Each employer shall furnish to each of his employees employment and a place of employment free from recognized hazards which are causing or may cause death or serious physical harm to his employees. (b) Each employer shall provide and insure the use of safety devices, safeguards and the personal protective equipmen...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 16 - Occupational Safety and Health (§§ 361 — 362)›§ 361f - Duties and powers of the Secretary
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 16 - Occupational Safety and Health (§§ 361 — 362) › § 361f - Duties and powers of the Secretary
(a) It shall be the duty of the Secretary to administer and enforce §§ 361—361aa of this title and he shall have the following powers and duties: (1) To adopt, approve, amend or repeal in whole or in part any occupational safety and health standard, rules and regulations relating to the protection of the safety and hea...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 16 - Occupational Safety and Health (§§ 361 — 362)›§ 361g - Federal standards established
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 16 - Occupational Safety and Health (§§ 361 — 362) › § 361g - Federal standards established
(a) The Secretary may adopt, in his discretion, any established federal standard, or amendment thereto, in whole or in part, as may be applicable to the working conditions in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and which he may determine will assure the greatest protection of the safety and health of the affected employees...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 16 - Occupational Safety and Health (§§ 361 — 362)›§ 361h - Occupational safety and health standards to be approved by the Secretary
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 16 - Occupational Safety and Health (§§ 361 — 362) › § 361h - Occupational safety and health standards to be approved by the Secretary
(a) The Secretary is authorized to approve, amend or revoke, in whole or in part, any occupational safety and health standard at his own initiative. The Secretary may consider for approval any draft for and/or amendment of occupational safety and health standards submitted by employers, employees and other interested p...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 16 - Occupational Safety and Health (§§ 361 — 362)›§ 361i - Warning labels and medical examinations
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 16 - Occupational Safety and Health (§§ 361 — 362) › § 361i - Warning labels and medical examinations
(a) The Secretary, in approving or adopting standards dealing with toxic materials or harmful physical agents under §§ 361—361aa of this title, shall set the standard which most adequately assures, to the extent feasible and on the basis of the best available evidence, that no employee shall suffer material impairment ...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 16 - Occupational Safety and Health (§§ 361 — 362)›§ 361j - Public notices and publication of standards, rules, regulations and orders of var...
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 16 - Occupational Safety and Health (§§ 361 — 362) › § 361j - Public notices and publication of standards, rules, regulations and orders of variances
(a) Prior to the approval, amendment or revocation of any rule or regulation, the Secretary shall give public notice of the proposed action by its publication in two (2) newspapers of general circulation in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The Secretary shall grant the interested parties a period of thirty (30) days af...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 16 - Occupational Safety and Health (§§ 361 — 362)›§ 361k - Records
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 16 - Occupational Safety and Health (§§ 361 — 362) › § 361k - Records
The Secretary shall keep an accurate record by any means available for keeping records of each public hearing and the documents relating therewith held before the Secretary as authorized herein. The Secretary shall also keep record of any action taken as a result of such hearings. History —Aug. 5, 1975, No. 16, p. 605,...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 16 - Occupational Safety and Health (§§ 361 — 362)›§ 361l - Emergency occupational safety and health standards
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 16 - Occupational Safety and Health (§§ 361 — 362) › § 361l - Emergency occupational safety and health standards
(a) The Secretary shall provide, without regard to §§ 361g, 361h and 361j of this title (excepting subsections (d) and (e) of § 361j of this title) for an emergency temporary standard to take effect immediately after publication of a notice in two (2) newspapers of general circulation in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 16 - Occupational Safety and Health (§§ 361 — 362)›§ 361m - Temporary variances
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 16 - Occupational Safety and Health (§§ 361 — 362) › § 361m - Temporary variances
(a) Any employer may apply to the Secretary for a temporary order for a variance from a standard or any provision thereof promulgated under §§ 361—361aa of this title. This temporary order shall be granted only if the employer files a petition which complies with the requirements of subsection (b) of this section and p...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 16 - Occupational Safety and Health (§§ 361 — 362)›§ 361n - Permanent variances
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 16 - Occupational Safety and Health (§§ 361 — 362) › § 361n - Permanent variances
Any affected employer may apply to the Secretary for an order authorizing a variance from a standard promulgated under §§ 361—361aa of this title. Affected employees shall be given notice of each such application and of the opportunity to participate in a hearing. The Secretary shall issue such order if he determines, ...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 16 - Occupational Safety and Health (§§ 361 — 362)›§ 361o - Procedure to review standards or orders for variances
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 16 - Occupational Safety and Health (§§ 361 — 362) › § 361o - Procedure to review standards or orders for variances
Any person who may be adversely affected by a standard promulgated under §§ 361—361aa of this title, or by an order for variance issued under § 361m or 361n of this title, may, at any time prior to the sixtieth (60th) day after the effective date of such standard or order, file a petition challenging the validity of su...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 16 - Occupational Safety and Health (§§ 361 — 362)›§ 361p - Inspections, investigations and keeping of records
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 16 - Occupational Safety and Health (§§ 361 — 362) › § 361p - Inspections, investigations and keeping of records
(a) In order to carry out the purposes of §§ 361—361aa of this title, the Secretary or his authorized representative, upon presenting appropriate credentials to the employer, owner, operator or agent in charge, is hereby authorized: (1) To enter without delay and at any time to any place of employment, and (2) to inspe...
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Justia›US Law›US Codes and Statutes›Laws of Puerto Rico›2023 Laws of Puerto Rico›TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004)›PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k)›Chapter 16 - Occupational Safety and Health (§§ 361 — 362)›§ 361q - Investigative powers
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 16 - Occupational Safety and Health (§§ 361 — 362) › § 361q - Investigative powers
In the discharge of his duties the Secretary shall have power to avail himself of the technical services of any of the officers of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico which in his judgment may be necessary to carry out the purposes of §§ 361—361aa of this title. The Secretary shall also have power to summ...