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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 3 - Labor Relations (§§ 41 — 100e) › Subchapter IV - Emergency Proceedings in Case of Strike or Threatened Strike (§§ 91 — 97) › § 93 - Appointment of Committee; per diems; powers and proceedings

In such event, the Governor may appoint a committee composed of not less than three (3) nor more than seven (7) persons. The Committee shall designate a chairman from among its members.
With the exception of the teaching personnel of the University of Puerto Rico, no official or employee of the Commonwealth or of its agencies, instrumentalities or political subdivisions may be a member of the Committee.
The members of the Committee shall receive per diems at the rate of twenty-five dollars ($25) for each day of meeting. They shall also be entitled to reimbursement of travel and other expenses incurred in the service of the Committee up to one hundred dollars ($100) monthly.
At the request of the chairman of the Committee any head of department or agency or instrumentality of the Commonwealth may furnish the personnel or any other assistance necessary for the discharge of the functions of the Committee. The Governor may give specific instructions to said official for the rendering of such assistance.
The Committee shall state the contentions of the parties to the labor-management dispute, setting forth in its report, which it shall render to the Governor within the time specified by him, the essential facts of the dispute without making any recommendation whatsoever.
The Governor shall transmit copy of said report to the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources and shall widely diffuse said report for public knowledge as he may deem convenient.
The Committee shall have power to hold hearings and, in the exercise of its powers, may issue subpoenas requiring the appearance of witnesses and the production of such data, information and evidence as it may deem necessary. The chairman or any member of the Committee may administer oaths and receive testimony, data, information and evidence.
If a subpoena of the Committee is not duly complied with, the Committee may resort to any part of the Court of First Instance of Puerto Rico and petition the court to give preference to the processing and dispatch of said petition. The court shall have authority to issue orders compelling the appearance of witnesses or the production of data, information or evidence previously required by the Committee. The Court of First Instance shall have power to punish as contempt disobedience of such orders.
History —May 22, 1965, No. 11, p. 17, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 3 - Labor Relations (§§ 41 — 100e) › Subchapter IV - Emergency Proceedings in Case of Strike or Threatened Strike (§§ 91 — 97) › § 94 - Injunction and certiorari; penalties

After receiving the report of the Committee, the Governor may direct the Secretary of Justice to file in the Court of First Instance a petition for a restraining order or temporary injunction, asking said court to issue, and it shall issue, without previous notice on the party or parties concerned, an order for the labor organization concerned to abstain or desist from said strike, subject to the previous finding by the court, based on the pleading of the petition and the evidence under oath presented ex parte, to the effect that:
(1) A strike exists and there exists a grave emergency by reason of said strike which clearly imperils the public health or safety or some essential public service, either throughout Puerto Rico or in any sector of Puerto Rico, or
(2) there is a threatened strike and there exists a grave emergency by reason of said threatened strike which clearly imperils the public health or safety or some essential public service, either throughout Puerto Rico or any sector of Puerto Rico.
The court may further issue any other orders that may be necessary to fulfill the purposes of this subchapter. Any order issued by the court shall be reviewable by the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico upon writ of certiorari. The filing of a petition for review shall not stay the effects of the order of the Court of First Instance.
If after considering on its merits the evidence at the hearing, which shall be held within the following ten (10) days, the Court of First Instance should be satisfied that the alleged circumstances which gave rise to the temporary injunction actually exist, or that analogous circumstances prevail, it shall issue a permanent injunction subject to the limitations below expressed. If after hearing the case on its merits the court shall find otherwise, it shall discharge the injunction.
If any natural or [juridical] person disobeys an order issued by the court hereunder, the court shall have power to punish said person for criminal contempt and to impose upon same, as a penalty therefor, fine or imprisonment, or both penalties, in its discretion. The court may consider as a distinct contempt each day elapsed without its order being obeyed, and may impose successive penalties which may vary from day to day, in its discretion.
For the purpose of collecting the fines that the court may impose as penalty for contempt committed in disobeying its orders hereunder, the provisions of § 1130(13) of Title 32, shall not apply.
The provisions of this section shall render ineffective, with respect to the proceedings herein established, the Rules or parts of Rules of Civil Procedure in conflict therewith.
Sections 101—109 of this title shall not apply to any proceeding hereunder.
History —May 22, 1965, No. 11, p. 17, § 4.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 3 - Labor Relations (§§ 41 — 100e) › Subchapter IV - Emergency Proceedings in Case of Strike or Threatened Strike (§§ 91 — 97) › § 95 - Conciliation proceedings

In every case in which the court shall have issued an order under § 94 of this title, it shall be the duty of the parties to the labor-management dispute to make every possible effort to settle their differences with the intervention of the Bureau of Conciliation and Arbitration of the Department of Labor and Human Resources. Neither party shall be under any duty to accept, in whole or in part, any proposal of settlement made by said Bureau.
As soon as the Court of First Instance has issued an order, the Governor shall reconvene the committee. During sixty (60) days since the court issued the order (unless the dispute has been settled by that time), the committee may submit to the Governor periodic reports on the situation and shall submit a final report on the state of the labor-management dispute and the position assumed by each party, as well as the efforts which have been made for settlement. It shall further include a statement by each party of its position. The Governor shall widely diffuse this report for public knowledge as he may deem convenient, and forthwith the Governor shall submit to the Legislative Assembly a complete and detailed report of the proceedings had, including the findings of the committee, as well as such recommendations as he may deem pertinent for attaining through legislative action the solution of the problem, if it persists.
History —May 22, 1965, No. 11, p. 17, § 5.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 3 - Labor Relations (§§ 41 — 100e) › Subchapter IV - Emergency Proceedings in Case of Strike or Threatened Strike (§§ 91 — 97) › § 96 - Term

Upon expiration of eighty (80) days after the order was issued, or in case a settlement of the dispute has been reached, the Secretary of Justice shall move the court to discharge its order. The motion of the Secretary of Justice shall be granted and the order shall be discharged.
History —May 22, 1965, No. 11, p. 17, § 6.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 3 - Labor Relations (§§ 41 — 100e) › Subchapter IV - Emergency Proceedings in Case of Strike or Threatened Strike (§§ 91 — 97) › § 97 - Individual right of employee

Nothing provided in this subchapter shall be construed as compelling an employee acting individually and not in concert with another, to render work or service without his consent. Nothing herein contained shall be construed as making it unlawful for an employee acting individually and not in concert with another, to give up his work or service.
History —May 22, 1965, No. 11, p. 17, § 7.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 3 - Labor Relations (§§ 41 — 100e) › Subchapter V - Labor Unions Services Bureau (§§ 99 — 99o) › § 99f - Director

The Labor Union Services Bureau shall be directed by a Director who shall be appointed by the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources, pursuant to the Puerto Rico Personnel Act. The Director of the Bureau shall administer and direct the Bureau under the direction and supervision of the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources, and shall also act as Secretary of the Advisory Board to extend financial assistance to the labor unions.
History —July 23, 1974, No. 155, Part 1, p. 708, § 2; July 20, 1979, No. 164, p. 416, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 3 - Labor Relations (§§ 41 — 100e) › Subchapter V - Labor Unions Services Bureau (§§ 99 — 99o) › § 99k - Repeals; transfers

Act No. 177 of March 22, 1946, as amended, and Act No. 109 of June 6, 1967, as amended, are hereby repealed, and it is hereby provided that all authority, responsibility and administrative functions conferred on the Labor Unions Accounting Bureau and the Labor Unions Technical and Economic Assistance Program of the Department of Labor and Human Resources, created under the statutes hereby repealed, shall be transferred to the Labor Union Services Bureau. Upon making the transfer of units, the personnel thereof shall keep their status and all their vested rights under the provisions of the Puerto Rico Public Service Personnel Act.
History —July 23, 1974, No. 155, Part 1, p. 708, § 7, renumbered as § 3 and amended on July 20, 1979, No. 164, p. 416, § 4.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 3 - Labor Relations (§§ 41 — 100e) › Subchapter V - Labor Unions Services Bureau (§§ 99 — 99o) › § 99l - Regulation

The Advisory Board created by regulations of the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources of October 4, 1967, to implement Act No. 109 of June 6, 1967, as amended, shall continue in force. Provided, That the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources shall amend said regulations to harmonize the same with the objectives of §§ 99e—99o of this title and the new administrative structure created hereunder. It is further provided, that the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources shall have full authority to repeal or amend the rules in force, or to promulgate new regulations to enforce §§ 99e, 99f and 99k—99o of this title in all its parts.
History —July 23, 1974, No. 155, Part 1, p. 708, § 8, renumbered as § 4 and amended on July 20, 1979, No. 164, p. 416, § 5.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 3 - Labor Relations (§§ 41 — 100e) › Subchapter V - Labor Unions Services Bureau (§§ 99 — 99o) › § 99m - Application for services, cooperation or aid

When a labor union wishes to receive any of the services, cooperation or assistance placed at its disposal by §§ 99e, 99f and 99k—99o of this title, it shall file an application, in writing, with the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources, which shall be done by a majority of its members or its directors and shall be accompanied by a certified copy of the resolution approved to such effect by a majority of the members or directors of said labor organization; Provided, however, That such application may be withdrawn in writing any time by said labor organization, including a certified copy of the resolution approved to such effect by a majority of the members or directors of said labor organization, according to the procedure originally initiated upon the application for such service.
History —July 23, 1974, No. 155, Part 1, p. 708, § 9, renumbered as § 5 and amended on July 20, 1979, No. 164, p. 416, § 6.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 3 - Labor Relations (§§ 41 — 100e) › Subchapter V - Labor Unions Services Bureau (§§ 99 — 99o) › § 99n - Confidentiality of records, books and documents

All records, account books and other documents and papers belonging to and submitted for study and verification by a labor organization to the Labor Union Services Bureau, as provided in §§ 99e, 99f and 99k—99o of this title, as well as any information or evidence obtained therefrom, shall be considered as strictly confidential and may not be produced as evidence in the courts of justice, nor may the same be disclosed by any officer or employee of said service, unless the labor organization in question so requests it in writing from the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources. Any employee or agent of the Department of Labor and Human Resources who discloses any information furnished during the rendering of the services requested by a labor organization, without written permission being granted by the latter, may be dismissed from the Department of Labor and Human Resources upon preferment of charges and the holding of a hearing, as provided by law.
History —July 23, 1974, No. 155, Part 1, p. 708, § 10, renumbered as § 6 and amended on July 20, 1979, No. 164, p. 416, § 7.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 3 - Labor Relations (§§ 41 — 100e) › Subchapter V - Labor Unions Services Bureau (§§ 99 — 99o) › § 99o - Personnel

The Secretary of Labor and Human Resources shall designate the necessary personnel to fulfill the functions and duties specified by §§ 99e, 99f and 99k—99o of this title.
History —July 23, 1974, No. 155, Part 1, p. 708, § 11, renumbered as § 7 and amended on July 20, 1979, No. 164, p. 416, § 8.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 3 - Labor Relations (§§ 41 — 100e) › Subchapter VI - Bill of Rights of Members of Organized Labor (§§ 100 — 100e) › § 100 - Definitions

The following words and phrases shall have the following meanings:
(a) Labor organization.— Shall mean any organization that represents or intends to represent employees or any group of employees acting in concert or a group in which employees participate and which exists for that purpose, in whole or in part, to deal with an employer regarding the protection of rights or to promote the well being of employees with respect to complaints and grievances, employment classifications, and work schedules and/or conditions not covered by Federal Law 86-25 of September 14, 1959, as amended, and better known as the Landrum Griffin Law, including labor organizations that operate under §§ 1451 et seq. of Title 3, §§ 61—76 of this title and the bona fide public employee organizations and associations that operate under §§ 702 of this title and § 4551nt of Title 21, and those organizations that represent public employees, among other things, ensuring the well being and improvements in the working conditions of the public employees by virtue of any special law.
(b) Board.— Shall mean the Labor Relations Board created by §§ 61—76 of this title.
(c) Commission.— Shall mean the Public Service Labor Relations Commission created by §§ 1451 et seq. of Title 3.
(d) Employee.— Shall mean an employee who is an accredited member of a labor organization, as this term is defined herein.
History —Sept. 16, 2004, No. 333, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 3 - Labor Relations (§§ 41 — 100e) › Subchapter VI - Bill of Rights of Members of Organized Labor (§§ 100 — 100e) › § 100b - Jurisdiction

Jurisdiction is hereby conferred to hear and resolve grievances or violations of the Bill of Rights of employee members of labor organizations to the Labor Relations Board in the case of public sector employees and labor organizations under its jurisdiction, pursuant to the provisions in §§ 61—76 of this title, and to the Public Service Labor Relations Commission in the case of employees and labor organizations under its jurisdiction, pursuant to §§ 1451 et seq. of Title 3, and those labor organizations or associations called bona fide, created pursuant to § 702 of Title 3 and § 4551nt of Title 21, and those labor organizations that are not covered by the aforementioned §§ 61—76 of this tile.
The grievances of employees for violations of this subchapter shall be filed within thirty (30) days of the occurrence of the violation of any of the rights conferred by this subchapter, or of the employee becoming aware of the violation, and shall be heard and considered by the aforementioned entities, pursuant to the procedures established for hearing and [elucidating] illegal work practices by the labor organizations provided in the aforementioned laws that govern the functions and prerogatives of such quasi-judicial entities.
History —Sept. 16, 2004, No. 333, § 4.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 3 - Labor Relations (§§ 41 — 100e) › Subchapter VI - Bill of Rights of Members of Organized Labor (§§ 100 — 100e) › § 100c - Fines

In addition to any other remedy provided in the organic laws of the Board or the Commission for cases of illegal work practices to be imposed upon labor organizations, including the loss of the certification of the labor organization, if it is found as a proven and well founded fact that the labor organization incurred in a sustained pattern of violations of the Bill of Rights provided herein, the Board or the Commission, as the case may be, may impose fines of $500.00 up to $5,000.00 for each violation incurred, without prejudice to the right of any employee to claim through a judicial venue indemnization for any damages incurred as a consequence of the violation of his/her rights, acknowledged by this subchapter, pursuant to the civil body of laws.
History —Sept. 16, 2004, No. 333, § 5.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 3 - Labor Relations (§§ 41 — 100e) › Subchapter VI - Bill of Rights of Members of Organized Labor (§§ 100 — 100e) › § 100d - Document

Within forty-five (45) days after the approval of this act, all labor organizations subject to its provisions shall notify the Board or the Commission, as the case may be, through a document containing the following information:
(1) Name of the organization.
(2) Address and telephone number of the main offices, branches and/or local or regional subsidiaries.
(3) Name and titles of the main directors, pursuant to its regulatory administrative structure.
(4) A copy of the collective bargaining agreement in effect and of the charter and bylaws of the organization.
(5) Number of affiliated employees and the agency or public corporation in which its members are employed.
(6) Membership dues.
(7) Copy of the latest financial statement prepared by the organization, a responsibility to be met annually by each organization, covering the fiscal year from July 1 to June 30 of each year, beginning fiscal year 2004—2005.
The Department of Labor and Human Resources shall publish a public notice directed to labor organizations on compliance with this obligation twice (2) in at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation within the first twenty (20) days after this act takes effect.
History —Sept. 16, 2004, No. 333, § 6.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 3 - Labor Relations (§§ 41 — 100e) › Subchapter VI - Bill of Rights of Members of Organized Labor (§§ 100 — 100e) › § 100e - Financial reports

None of the provisions set forth shall hinder the Board or the Commission from demanding that the labor organizations or its directors render financial reports or statements of the labor organization or its directors when deemed necessary to comply with the duties established in this subchapter.
If the labor organization is duly acknowledged and certified by §§ 1451 et seq. of Title 3, and in compliance with said sections renders the reports and documents required herein, it shall not have to comply with the provisions in this subchapter concerning said information and documents.
History —Sept. 16, 2004, No. 333, § 7.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 5 - Injunctions in Labor Disputes (§§ 101 — 109) › § 101 - Limitation on injunctive power of courts

No court of Puerto Rico shall have jurisdiction to issue any restraining order or temporary or permanent injunction in a case involving or growing out of a labor dispute, except in strict accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
History —Aug. 4, 1947, No. 50, p. 276, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 5 - Injunctions in Labor Disputes (§§ 101 — 109) › § 102 - Specific acts exempt from restraint or injunction

No court of Puerto Rico shall have jurisdiction to issue any restraining order or temporary or permanent injunction in any case involving or growing out of a labor dispute, to prohibit any person or persons participating or interested in such dispute from doing, whether singly or in concert, any of the following acts:
(a) Ceasing or refusing to perform any work or to remain in any relation of employment.
(b) Becoming or remaining a member of any labor organization.
(c) Paying or giving to, or withholding from, any person participating or interested in such labor dispute any strike benefits, strike insurance, or other moneys or things of value.
(d) By all lawful means aiding any person participating or interested in any labor dispute who is being proceeded against in, or is prosecuting, any action or suit in any court of Puerto Rico.
(e) Giving publicity to the existence of or the facts involved in any labor dispute, whether by advertising, speaking, patrolling, or by any other method not involving fraud or violence.
(f) Assembling peaceably to act or to organize, or to act in promotion of their interests in a labor dispute.
(g) Refuse to support any party to said dispute, or recommend to, advise, or persuade others, not to support any party to said dispute.
(h) Advising or notifying any person of an intention to do any of the acts heretofore specified.
(i) Agreeing with other persons to do or not to do the acts heretofore specified.
(j) Advising, urging, or otherwise promoting or inducing, without fraud or violence, the acts heretofore specified.
History —Aug. 4, 1947, No. 50, p. 276, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 5 - Injunctions in Labor Disputes (§§ 101 — 109) › § 103 - Conspiracy or unlawful combination to do acts in concert

No court of Puerto Rico shall have jurisdiction to issue a restraining order or temporary or permanent injunction upon the ground that any of the persons participating or interested in a labor dispute constitutes or is engaged in an unlawful combination or conspiracy for the doing in concert of the acts enumerated in § 102 of this title.
History —Aug. 4, 1947, No. 50, p. 276, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 5 - Injunctions in Labor Disputes (§§ 101 — 109) › § 104 - Liability for acts of officers or members of organizations

No officer or member of any association or organization, and no association or organization, participating or interested in a labor dispute shall be held responsible or liable in any court of Puerto Rico for the unlawful acts of individual officers, members, or agents, except upon clear proof of the actual participation in such acts, or that they have really authorized the same or have ratified them after having full knowledge thereof.
History —Aug. 4, 1947, No. 50, p. 276, § 4.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 5 - Injunctions in Labor Disputes (§§ 101 — 109) › § 106 - Good faith of complainant as prerequisite for relief

No restraining order or injunctive relief shall be granted to any complainant who has failed to comply with any obligation fixed by the laws involved in the labor dispute in question, or who has failed to make every effort to settle such dispute either by negotiation or with the aid of the Conciliation Service and voluntary arbitration.
History —Aug. 4, 1947, No. 50, p. 276, § 6.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 5 - Injunctions in Labor Disputes (§§ 101 — 109) › § 107 - Finding of facts as basis for injunction; order limited to prohibition

No restraining order or temporary or permanent injunction shall be granted in any case involving or growing out of a labor dispute, except on the basis of finding of facts made and filed by the court in the record of the case prior to the issuance of such restraining order or writ of injunction; and every restraining order or writ of injunction granted in a case involving or growing out of a labor dispute shall include only a prohibition of such specific act or acts as may be expressly complained of in the bill of complaints or petition filed in such case and as shall be expressly included in said findings of fact made and filed by the court in the records of the case, as provided in this section.
History —Aug. 4, 1947, No. 50, p. 276, § 7.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 5 - Injunctions in Labor Disputes (§§ 101 — 109) › § 108 - Appeal to Supreme Court

Whenever any court shall issue or deny any temporary injunction in a case involving or growing out of a labor dispute, the court shall, upon the request of any party to the proceedings, forthwith certify, as in ordinary cases, the record of the case to the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico for its review. Upon the filing of such record in the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, the appeal shall be heard and affirmed, modified, or reversed with the greatest possible expedition, giving the proceedings precedence over all other matters, except other matters of the same character previously filed.
The order of the court granting or denying any temporary or permanent injunction shall subsist as to all of its terms until the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico enters final resolution in the proceedings for review.
History —Aug. 4, 1947, No. 50, p. 276, § 8.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 5 - Injunctions in Labor Disputes (§§ 101 — 109) › § 109 - Definitions

When used in this chapter, and for the purposes hereof:
(a) A case shall be held to involve or to grow out of a labor dispute when the case involves persons who are engaged in the same industry, trade, craft, or occupation, or have direct or indirect interest therein; or who are employees of the same employer; or who are members of the same [or] of an affiliated organization of employers or employees; whether such dispute is:
(1) Between one or more employers or associations of employers and one or more employees or associations of employees;
(2) between one or more employers or associations of employers and one or more employers or associations of employers, or
(3) between one or more employees or associations of employees and one or more employees or associations of employees; or when the case involves any conflicting or competing interests in a labor dispute of persons participating or interested therein.
(b) A person or association shall be held to be a person participating or interested in a labor dispute if relief is sought against said person or association, or if any of them is engaged in the same industry, trade, craft, or occupation in which such dispute occurs, or has a direct or indirect interest therein, or is a member, officer, or agent of any association composed in whole or in part of employers or employees engaged in such industry, trade, craft, or occupation.
(c) The term “labor dispute” includes any controversy concerning terms or conditions of employment, or concerning the association or representation of persons in negotiating, fixing, maintaining, changing, or seeking to arrange terms or conditions of employment regardless of whether or not the disputants stand in the proximate relation of employer and employee.
History —Aug. 4, 1947, No. 50, p. 276, § 9.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 7 - Protection of Employees’ Rights (§§ 131 — 10854) › § 131 - Interference with voting rights—By employer

Every employer who seeks by coercion, intimidation or threats, to dismiss, or who refuses to employ, or who reduces the wages of any workman, for the purpose of inducing him to vote at any legal election according to the will of the employer or of any of his agents, or who in any manner demands of the laborer employed by him that he exhibit the ballot for examination by the employer or any other person representing him, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
History —Apr. 28, 1930, No. 47, p. 366, § 1, eff. 90 days after Apr. 28, 1930.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 7 - Protection of Employees’ Rights (§§ 131 — 10854) › § 132 - Interference with voting rights—By officer or agent of employer

Any officer, employee or agent of a corporation, firm or other person, invested with power and authority to dismiss laborers or to employ them, who by coercion in any manner attempts to dismiss any such laborer or to reduce his compensation as such laborer, in order to induce him to vote at any legal election according to the desires of the corporation, or of the officer or agent representing it, or who in any manner attempts to examine the ballot of such laborer, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
History —Apr. 28, 1930, No. 47, p. 366, § 2, eff. 90 days after Apr. 28, 1930.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 7 - Protection of Employees’ Rights (§§ 131 — 10854) › § 133 - Interference with voting rights—Ouster from home

Any corporation, firm, employer, officer or agent who, on account of political opinions, three months prior to or after any legal election, directs or promotes any kind of proceedings for the purpose of ousting from his home any laborer who has been employed by such corporation, firm or employer, and who has occupied lands thereof, or land owned by the employer, for at least two years prior to the date of the election, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
History —Apr. 28, 1930, No. 47, p. 366, § 3, eff. 90 days after Apr. 28, 1930.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 7 - Protection of Employees’ Rights (§§ 131 — 10854) › § 134 - Interference with voting rights—Blacklist to prevent employment

Any person, firm, corporation, employer, agent, or person in charge, who, on account of political opinions, in any manner whatever induces or notifies another firm, corporation or employer not to give work to one or more laborers, and that their names be recorded in any manner so that no work be given them, or to prevent their obtaining work at any other place, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
History —Apr. 28, 1930, No. 47, p. 366, § 4, eff. 90 days after Apr. 28, 1930.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 7 - Protection of Employees’ Rights (§§ 131 — 10854) › § 135 - Interference with voting rights—Penalties

Any corporation, firm, employer or their agents, officers or persons in charge, who violate any of the provisions of §§ 131—135 of this title or any part thereof, upon conviction shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000), or less than five hundred dollars ($500), or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or less than six (6) months.
History —Apr. 28, 1930, No. 47, p. 366, § 5, eff. 90 days after Apr. 28, 1930.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 7 - Protection of Employees’ Rights (§§ 131 — 10854) › § 140 - Prejudicial discrimination by employer—Penalties

Any employer who performs any act of prejudicial discrimination against his workmen or employees, or any of them, because the same have organized, or taken part in activities of, a labor union, or have demanded the making of a collective labor agreement, or have participated in a strike or in a claim for better wages and working conditions, or because they are affiliated with a certain political party, shall be guilty, in the case of each workman or employee against whom he may have performed an act of prejudicial discrimination, of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500), or by imprisonment in jail for a term of not less than thirty (30) days nor more than ninety (90) days, or by both penalties, in the discretion of the court. In case of subsequent offenses, the fine shall not be less than three hundred dollars ($300) and the imprisonment in jail shall not be less than ninety (90) days, or both penalties, in the discretion of the court.
History —May 7, 1942, No. 114, p. 690, § 1, eff. 90 days after May 7, 1942.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 7 - Protection of Employees’ Rights (§§ 131 — 10854) › § 141 - Prejudicial discrimination by employer—Actions as evidence of violations

Any of the following acts, without prejudice to others of a similar nature, shall constitute prima facie evidence of the violation of §§ 140—143 of this title in the case of workmen or employees against whom the employer performs acts of prejudicial discrimination for any of the circumstances stated in § 140 of this title.
(1) Dismissal without just cause.
(2) Unjustified reduction of wages.
(3) Increase of the working day without adequate compensation.
(4) Imposing of more onerous conditions of work.
(5) Lowering in the employment, position, function, or work that they do.
(6) The deprivation or refusal of benefits, facilities, improvements, services, rest, vacations, pensions, or bonuses that they might have been receiving or enjoying by reason of the employment.
History —May 7, 1942, No. 114, p. 690, § 2, eff. 90 days after May 7, 1942.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 7 - Protection of Employees’ Rights (§§ 131 — 10854) › § 142 - Prejudicial discrimination by employer—Definition of “employer”

In §§ 140—143 of this title, unless otherwise deducted from the context thereof, the word “employer” shall include any natural or [juridical] person employing workmen or employees, and the manager, administrator, superintendent, foreman, overseer, timekeeper, paymaster, or representative of said natural or [juridical] person.
History —May 7, 1942, No. 114, p. 690, § 3, eff. 90 days after May 7, 1942.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 7 - Protection of Employees’ Rights (§§ 131 — 10854) › § 143 - Prejudicial discrimination by employer—Pleading

No complaint for violations of §§ 140—143 of this title can be dismissed, alleging accumulation of faults committed, or for defect of form, provided that the fault or faults complained of are included within the terms of sections 140—143 of this title.
History —May 7, 1942, No. 114, p. 690, § 4, eff. 90 days after May 7, 1942.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 7 - Protection of Employees’ Rights (§§ 131 — 10854) › § 144 - Commissaries and cash advances prohibited; cafeterias excepted

In every employment, undertaking, or establishment of whatever nature it may be, such as industrial enterprises, agricultural undertakings and mercantile establishments employing more than ten (10) persons, said enterprises, undertakings, and establishments, or their representatives, are hereby prohibited from maintaining, operating, or having any direct or indirect interest in businesses for the sale of provisions, tools, merchandise, clothing, or similar articles, to their workmen or employees. Cafeterias established by industrial or manufacturing enterprises for the purpose of providing their workmen or employees with facilities for obtaining meals at reasonable prices within the premises of the factory itself, either as part of the activities of the enterprise or through grantees inspected by it, are hereby exempted from this prohibition; Provided, That it shall be optional for said workmen or employees to eat in said cafeterias or provide for themselves in any other manner; Provided, further, That the Minimum Wage Board shall pass upon the reasonableness of the prices of the foods purveyed in cafeterias to which this section refers.
It shall be unlawful for any employer or his representative to make cash advances to his workmen, or to permit or agree that any other natural or artificial person do so in his name, when such advances are made for the purposes of defeating the purposes of this section and § 145 of this title or of furnishing means so that the workmen may spend such advances for the purchase of merchandise in a particular commercial establishment, aside from any hereinabove exempted from the prohibition contained in this section.
History —Apr. 10, 1942, No. 27, p. 400, § 1; Dec. 4, 1947, No. 7, p. 308.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 7 - Protection of Employees’ Rights (§§ 131 — 10854) › § 145 - Commissaries and cash advances prohibited; cafeterias excepted—Penalties

Every natural or [juridical] person who personally or through his agents, employees, or partners, violates the provisions of § 144 of this title, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor for each one of the days on which he does business in contravention of § 144 of this title and, upon conviction, there shall be imposed upon him a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200), or he shall be imprisoned in jail for a term of not less than thirty (30) days nor more than ninety (90) days, or both penalties shall be imposed on him, in the discretion of the court.
History —Apr. 10, 1942, No. 27, p. 400, § 2, eff. 90 days after Apr. 10, 1942.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 7 - Protection of Employees’ Rights (§§ 131 — 10854) › § 146a - Discrimination because of age, race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, social or national origin or social status, political affiliation, or political or religious ideology, or for being a victim or perceived as a victim of domestic violence, sexual aggression or stalking, for being a servicemember, ex-servicemember, serving or having served in the United States Armed Forces, or holding veteran status—Publishing; announcements

It shall be unlawful for any employer or organization to publish or circulate, or allow the publication or circulation of announcements, notices or any other form of diffusion, denying equal employment opportunities, directly or indirectly, to any person indiscriminately, based on his/her race, color, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, social or national origin, social condition, political affiliation or political or religious beliefs, or for being a victim or perceived as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, or without just cause, because of age, or by establishing limitations which may exclude any person because of his/her race, color, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, social or national origin, social condition, political affiliation or political or religious beliefs, or for being a victim or perceived as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, or because of his/her age, without just cause.
Any employer or labor organization violating any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of up to five thousand dollars ($5,000) or by imprisonment in jail, for a term of not more than ninety (90) days, or both penalties, in the discretion of the court.
History —June 30, 1959, No. 100, p. 284, added as § 1-A on June 14, 1960, No. 84, p. 150; May 30, 1972, No. 50, p. 114, § 3; June 22, 1975, No. 58, p. 131, § 3; June 7, 1977, No. 37, p. 81, § 3; June 3, 1983, No. 67, p. 142, § 3; Dec. 20, 1991, No. 116, § 2; Sept. 13, 1997, No. 121, § 3; Dec. 17, 2006, No. 271, § 3; Aug. 13, 2008, No. 250, § 2, eff. 30 days after Aug. 13, 2008; Sept. 13, 2012, No. 232, § 1; May 29, 2013, No. 22, § 13.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 7 - Protection of Employees’ Rights (§§ 131 — 10854) › § 147 - Discrimination because of age, race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, social or national origin or social status, political affiliation, or political or religious ideology, or for being a victim or perceived as a victim of domestic violence, sexual aggression or stalking, for being a servicemember, ex-servicemember, serving or having served in the United States Armed Forces, or holding veteran status—Discrimination by labor union

Any labor organization which limits, divides or classifies its members in any manner that deprives or tends to deprive anyone who aspires or is entitled to become a member of said organization, of an employment opportunity based on his/her age, race, color, religion, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, social or national origin, political affiliation, political beliefs or social condition, or for being a victim or perceived as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking:
(a) Shall incur in civil liability:
(1) For a sum equal to twice the amount of the damages sustained through such act by the member or person concerned;
(2) for a sum of not less than one hundred [dollars] ($100) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), in the discretion of the court, if no pecuniary damages are determined;
(3) for twice the amount of damages sustained, if said amount were under the sum of one hundred dollars ($100), and
(b) shall also be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of up to five thousand dollars ($5,000), or by imprisonment in jail for a term of not more than ninety (90) days, or both penalties, in the discretion of the court.
The court may, in the judgment passed on civil actions brought under the provisions of this section, further direct the labor union to cease and desist from such action.
History —June 30, 1959, No. 100, p. 284, § 2; May 30, 1972, No. 50, p. 114, § 3; June 7, 1977, No. 37, p. 81, § 4; June 3, 1983, No. 67, p. 142, § 4; Dec. 20, 1991, No. 116, § 3; Sept. 13, 1997, No. 121, § 4; Dec. 17, 2006, No. 271, § 4; Aug. 13, 2008, No. 250, § 3, eff. 30 days after Aug. 13, 2008; Sept. 13, 2012, No. 232, § 1; May 29, 2013, No. 22, § 14.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-NINE - Labor (§§ 1 — 3004) › PART I - Labor Provisions Generally (§§ 1 — 510k) › Chapter 7 - Protection of Employees’ Rights (§§ 131 — 10854) › § 147a - Discrimination because of age, race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, social or national origin or social status, political affiliation, or political or religious ideology, or for being a victim or perceived as a victim of domestic violence, sexual aggression or stalking, for being a servicemember, ex-servicemember, serving or having served in the United States Armed Forces, or holding veteran status—Apprenticeship, training or retraining

Any employer, labor organization or joint labor-management committee that controls apprenticeship, training or retraining programs, including on-the-job training programs, which discriminates against a person based on his/her race, color, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, social origin or condition, political affiliation, political or religious beliefs, or for being a victim or perceived as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking, or because of his/her advanced age, without just cause to be admitted to, or employed in any apprenticeship or other training program:
(a) Shall incur civil liability:
(1) For a sum equal to twice the amount of the damages sustained by the employee or applicant for employment on account of such action;
(2) or for a sum not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), in the discretion of the court, if no pecuniary damages are determinable;
(3) or for twice the amount of the damages sustained if said amount were under the sum of one hundred dollars ($100), and
(b) shall also be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction, be punished by a fine of up to five thousand dollars ($5,000) or by imprisonment in jail for a term [no less than thirty (30) days] not more than ninety (90) days, or by both penalties, in the discretion of the court.
The court may, in the judgment passed on civil actions brought under the preceding provisions, direct the employer to reinstate the employee in his former employ and to cease and desist from the act involved.
History —June 30, 1959, No. 100, p. 284, added as § 2-A on June 22, 1975, No. 58, p. 131; Dec. 20, 1991, No. 116, § 4; Sept. 13, 1997, No. 121, § 5; Dec. 17, 2006, No. 271, § 5; Aug. 13, 2008, No. 250, § 4, eff. 30 days after Aug. 13, 2008; Sept. 13, 2012, No. 232, § 1; May 29, 2013, No. 22, § 15.